Jessica Williams Quotes
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Nothing improves your confidence and brings a team together more than winning a cup.
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I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition.
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I'm happy to fight anybody.
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I've ended up becoming my mother in some respects, despite my eight years of analysis!
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I'm married. I've been with my husband for six years. Now that I know what a healthy relationship is, I find I can write better about the unhealthiness of relationships.
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I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
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I intend not to do an item song ever. I find the term 'item songs' bizarre. I do not want to comment on its presence and its popularity, but I would rather avoid it.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.
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When you see results, you start to wonder, 'What would happen if I had oatmeal instead of sausage for breakfast?' You start to eat better because you feel better.
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Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest.
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
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I don't want them to read what I'm writing and say, 'I think that's right,' and agree with me. I want them to read something and then walk away and be haunted by it.
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I don't feel that I've had a life of abuse or that I am a victim in any way. My life is pretty typical of a lot of Americans of my generation who grew up in the sixties in families like mine that were sort of unconventional.
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We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.
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All the characters on 'Girls' are growing and changing, which is how real people behave, especially when we're young, trying to figure out who we are, doing things that are the polar opposite of our characteristics.
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I feel more and more the time wasted that is not spent in Ireland.
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Game theorists analyze negotiations as if they were split-a-pie games involving selfish players.
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If I was doing a musical, I would never listen to the cast album, because I wanted to do my version of something.
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That is the true joy of being a solo artist. I can do whatever I want. I can go wherever I want. I can show up with my guitar and my song, and it can sound a hundred different ways. That's the freedom of being on your own. The flipside is: That's you on the cover. If it sucks, it's your fault.
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The best thing we can do with rejection is to make it a learning experience - rejection is a great teacher.
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I don't come from a comedy background or a stand-up background, but I think that sometimes there's a misconception that an actor who works primarily in comedy is a comedian. There's nothing wrong with being a comedian, but I'm absolutely not that. I can't think of anything more terrifying than doing stand-up!
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Where I think the most work needs to be done is behind the camera, not in front of it.
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Every day when I wake up, I check Instagram.
