I think there's something to the millennial sentiment of being, like, 'I'm great.' But I think there's also something really amazing and powerful about being, like, 'Oh, hey, I'm awesome.' It's a fine line. But I think it's possible to be both, to not be the most annoying person in the world, to still be very intriguing and fun to watch.

Jessica Williams

For me, so far, confidence has been a journey, not a destination.

I'm a middle child, so I have middle-child syndrome. With a middle child, you always have to take in everything and adjust and maybe compromise a little bit so you're able to see both sides of an issue. I'm also a Leo - I love astrology - so that affected me, just being a lion.

Jessica Williams

Love You Wit

Get more confidence by doing things that excite and frighten you.

Jessica Williams

You Things Thing

I love relationships; they fascinate me.

Jessica Williams

Relationship Love T

I'm a tomboy, but I really love doing my makeup - I find it relaxing and grounding. With 'The Daily Show,' it was easier for me to do my own makeup. In the beginning, I watched a lot of YouTube tutorials. You find a beauty blogger who has your skin tone, and pretty much everything they use will look good on you.

Jessica Williams

Love Good YouTube

I don't really do stand-up.

Jessica Williams

Up Tan T

I can be pretty harsh and judgmental. I'm a very harsh and judgmental person. I like morals, right and wrong. I like to see things in black-and-white when I can, so I will hold a lot of guys to an impossible standard.

Jessica Williams

Men Wrong Will

It's impossible to be perfect, and you won't do a good job if you're too focused on proving yourself to others.

Jessica Williams

Good Yourself Yours

I was always told that I acted too white. I was always told that I was going to date a white guy - which, in fairness, was true: I do have a white boyfriend. So they weren't entirely wrong, but all of those things were really damaging.

Jessica Williams

Wrong White Which

The black experience for me has been very interesting. Some days, I wake up, and I feel really black. Some days, I'm like, 'This is me. I'm black. Black Lives Matter. Black pride. Look at my cocoa skin.' I just feel it's my being.

Jessica Williams

Experience Wake Up Wake

People have their guard down when they're laughing, so they're open to tougher conversations they wouldn't necessarily have. If somebody is guarded while laughing, they're a weirdo.

Jessica Williams

Would While Weirdo

I live in Brooklyn; I live in Clinton Hill. I love it there.

Jessica Williams

Love Ton T

I wasn't prepared to be so... arrested by Jon Hamm.

Jessica Williams

Ted T Rested

I used to think men were these idiots who just yelled at you on the street. But, part of my maturing was realizing that not all men are evil or monsters.

Jessica Williams

Men Art You

I'm a young person; sometimes I'm political, sometimes I'm not.

Jessica Williams

Time Young You

I live in Brooklyn, and there's so many interracial couples in Brooklyn. In Brooklyn, you don't talk about race like that.

Jessica Williams

You Up Talk

That's how me and my friends are. We love our personal relationships, but we have things we want to accomplish.

Jessica Williams

Relationship Love Want

There's such an adrenaline rush for me on stage and having all these people look at you. There's an adrenaline rush from not having things written down, too.

Jessica Williams

Age You Written

Basketball would have been the natural sport to play, but it's a little too aggressive for me, so instead I dabbled in volleyball and some good old-fashioned Roller Derby.

Jessica Williams

Good Would Volleyball

There is more of a demand, especially on the Internet and on Tumblr and Twitter, from women who are like, 'We want to see more of us on TV!'.

Jessica Williams

Women Men Wit

I was doing a college show for the first time, and there was this 20-year-old gay male who's been diabetic his entire life. He said, 'I really wanna get into stand-up.' I was like, 'Oh, my God, do you realize how interesting and inherently funny you are? Go do all the comedy that you wanna do.' I care about that.

Jessica Williams

There's a really positive side of being an introvert - you really pick up on things a lot more than your extroverted counterparts.

Jessica Williams

You don't have to be African American to really enjoy 'Frisky Business'. But as far as being black, a lot of people in New York have been stopped and frisked, so that hits home for them.

Jessica Williams

I enjoy romantic comedies in general. I like them when they're bad, I like when they're good.

Jessica Williams

Oh, I'm obsessed with the Kardashians. Not the way that I think a 13- or 14-year-old girl would be, but I find them fascinating. They are so rich. They are also, at the end of the day, women of color.

Jessica Williams

The last thing I do before bed is think I should take my contacts out. Then I fall asleep.

Jessica Williams

Some of the best comedies now are led by women who are very involved: 'Parks and Recreation.' 'Veep's' incredible. I love 'Girls.'

Jessica Williams

I think we can topple the patriarchy by using our voices to speak out against things that aren't right and that we don't agree with. I think for people who are not people of color or members of the LGBT community, it is being an ally and being an advocate in spaces that people of color or members of the LGBT community can't really get into.

Jessica Williams

Allison Jones, a big casting director out there, was like, 'They're casting 'The Daily Show' right now - you should submit a tape.' I remember leaving school to go shoot an audition.

Jessica Williams

I think women can tell the most profound and interesting and fascinating stories.

Jessica Williams

'Sex and the City' didn't change the show because it was an international sensation. They kept it in New York.

Jessica Williams

I loved doing 'Frisky Business.' I didn't come up with it. I think John Oliver and the writers did.

Jessica Williams

There's milk-and-cookies Grandma, and there's Colt 45 and Atlantic City Grandma. She was the latter.

Jessica Williams

I wanted to do screenwriting. That's what I went to school for, but my major was overfilled, and when I got 'The Daily Show', I was a semester away from officially starting my major, so I never started that in particular.

Jessica Williams

I think we need to not speak over black women, not assign them labels.

Jessica Williams

I thought I was going to be hired as a contributor, but 'The Daily Show' was like, 'Nah, it's an election year, we want you to come over here and work full-time.'

Jessica Williams

When I wake up in night sweats, that's what I'm thinking about: what if someone grabs me from my past and says, 'I heard you drag me to filth on your podcast.'

Jessica Williams

I think there's something to the millennial sentiment of being, like, 'I'm great.' But I think there's also something really amazing and powerful about being, like, 'Oh, hey, I'm awesome.' It's a fine line. But I think it's possible to be both, to not be the most annoying person in the world, to still be very intriguing and fun to watch.

Jessica Williams

I look for a man who respects my womanhood and doesn't make me feel like I have to be a stereotype. Like a housewife.

Jessica Williams

Oftentimes, as women and women of color, we are put as supporting characters in other people's narratives. With 'Jessica James', she is the star of her own narrative.

Jessica Williams

You can learn so much just by observing.

Jessica Williams

I had to get used to seeing Samantha Bee around. I had to get used to seeing Jon, like, getting a bagel, and to John Oliver, and all these people whom I had seen on TV. Colbert would sometimes drop by. I had to get used to being a part of this multiple-Emmy-winning machine and being this 22-year-old black girl who was really green.

Jessica Williams

As far as diversity's concerned, there's me, there's Al Madrigal, there's Aasif Mandvi. But I'm not walking around feeling black all the time. That would stress me out.

Jessica Williams

Ultimately, when I deliver something, a lot of times it will be from a black woman's perspective, but other times it will be just from a satirical, goofy perspective.

Jessica Williams

I love it when women are like, 'You guys sound like me and my best friend!'

Jessica Williams

Me and Cate Blanchett have the same job, technically.

Jessica Williams

Don't try to fix anyone, especially not a dude. They're not going to change.

Jessica Williams

The Kardashians are walking clickbait - but let's look closer. Do Kim and Kanye affect how society feels about interracial relationships and blended families?

Jessica Williams

Thankfully, I already have a mogul I can pattern myself after: Oprah. We're a lot alike. I'm black, I love to relate things people talk about to myself, and people think my best friend and I are lesbians! My strength is that I'm more relatable.

Jessica Williams

There's truth in comedy, and that resonates with people of all races.

Jessica Williams