John Jay Chapman Quotes

When humor works, it works because it's clarifying what people already feel. It has to come from someplace real.

Conflict is the pursuit of truth.

Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words.

Dali Lama said, 'when you open the heart of the person with humor, you can tell him the most truth. But if you tell him truth without humor, the heart closes.'

Words build bridges into unexplored regions.

I show them the funny part, the silly part, the laughing part, the crazy part and then the really deep, deep part where I'm talking from my heart to these people. Because I've been through everything they've been through.

They see us interacting with people, they see us doing serious interviews, they see us having fun, and when you're conversing with someone, you get a much clearer impression of who that person is than if they are just reading into a news piece.

If you find something to tell, tell it to your truest, though that make little to tell; the truer you speak, the more you will know to tell.

Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.

One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.

I don't feel like I need to preach to the world or nothing like that. I just feel like I share what I say, and if listeners get it, they get it. And I never underestimate the audience's ability to feel me.

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

It's weird to try to write lyrics for somebody else. They can't really get behind what you're saying or what you want them to say because they didn't experience it.

In the process of looking for comedy, you have to be deeply honest. And in doing that, you'll find out here's the other side. You'll be looking under the rock occasionally for the laughter.

Speech was made to open man to man, and not to hide him.

Sometimes it doesn't hurt to talk around a little and see what lights people's eyes up and what makes them cloud over.

What I love is dropping into someone else's life and exploring it.

I try to be as honest as I can in writing. That's what ends up translating and relating to people.

I seek the truth.

If you aren't talking to readers and letting them know you're just like them, they can lose interest.

If you're making a statement just to poke, people can see that. If you're making it to say something genuinely, people can understand that as well. They are smart enough to see the difference.

My experience is authenticity and honesty always works best with people my age and younger, and even older. Millennials specifically really respond to keeping it real about your opinions.

People come to the theatre in search of a real encounter with other human beings, and we must give them what they come for. Our capacity to do that is the measure of being human. And if the price is that we sometimes say something not very pleasant - well, that's precisely why people want us, in the end: because we speak the truth.