Michelle Williams Quotes & Sayings

I started acting as a child in Community Theatre but I didn't do any serious stuff. It was all musicals like 'Annie' and 'Wizard of Oz.' I was always in the chorus. — Michelle Williams

Everything's connected, and everything has meaning if you look for it. — Michelle Williams

Every movie I make I find kind of excruciating. I get a lot back from it, but I feel like I'm kind of always working at the edge of my ability. I guess that's what I'm looking for when I go to work. I am trying to become the edge. — Michelle Williams

There was a sense of being taken on a journey by the grandmaster of the road trip. You feel this weird angel taking you somewhere. You don't know where, but you trust him. — Michelle Williams

I don't know what my version of a relationship or marriage is yet, because the typical model seems a little broken to me. — Michelle Williams

For this relay there was a little more pressure because it's the 200, you have to make sure you swim it smart. The 100 was more about energy. — Michelle Williams

I feel like something has changed for me, but it's a new change, so it's going to be hard for me to describe. Maybe it has something to do with turning 30. I don't feel as shy or nervous or self-conscious. I have more confidence that I can handle what life brings me. I don't feel scared to have an idea and express it. I feel giddy about it because it's a complete transformation. It's like I've found my voice. — Michelle Williams

There was a weird, innate kind of understanding between me and Christina (Ricci). A psychic told us we were sisters in a past life. — Michelle Williams

Maybe it has something to do with turning 30. I don't feel as shy or nervous or self-conscious. I have more confidence that I can handle what life brings me. I don't feel scared to have an idea and express it. — Michelle Williams

One of the best things - and something I'm grateful for every time I walk onto a film set - is my six and a half years on Dawson's Creek and the experience it afforded me in how to get comfortable with the camera. — Michelle Williams

I am a huge Leonard Cohen person. — Michelle Williams

I want a happy life. — Michelle Williams

I've come to learn that the choices I labor over and go back and forth about and ask a million people for their opinions and make lists about ... those are always the wrong choices. — Michelle Williams

Whatever education I got was from experience and reading. But I also realize I wouldn't pass my friend's sixth-grade class. — Michelle Williams

I don't want to do anything to embarrass my family or my church because the town that I come from is so small. There are certain things that I just can't be part of because of my foundation. — Michelle Williams

I just came in this morning with one goal; to make it back tonight, so I'm very excited for the final. — Michelle Williams

It's all so personal, isn't it? It's hard to talk about work without talking about things that are personal. Work is personal. I don't want to talk about my personal life, but it's on my mind, and it's in my work. — Michelle Williams

Even the simplest things, I'm guilty of making really bad decisions a lot of the time. — Michelle Williams

When I was filming the Marilyn Monroe movie, I was listening to a lot of Leonard Cohen. — Michelle Williams

Is there anything better than making a kid laugh? — Michelle Williams

When my daughter asks, 'What do you do?', every movie I have a different answer. As she grows, she wants more explanations. — Michelle Williams

I find that each job that I do, the thing that gets me there is when I'm not smarter than it, when I don't know instantly how that thing is made. Because if I do, then it's boring. Or it would be simple. — Michelle Williams

Oh, Zoe Kazan - I'd move back to Brooklyn for her. She makes me happy with my life. Knowing her, being at her dinner table, going on a walk with her is the best of all possible worlds. — Michelle Williams

I mean, I am still such the-good-girl. I want everybody to like me. I want everybody to be happy. — Michelle Williams

I have to admit I was annoyed. Not physically annoyed, but inside annoyed. That helpless feeling you have when you know you should not be angry because you have to consider how other people are feeling or accept them for what they are, and that it is not your place to say anything. But annoyed because you have not been considered in the whole picture, you are there and that is that. Apologies begin to mean nothing at that point and frustration takes over. — Michelle Williams

I had always been kind of obsessed with making a home of my own and was always drawing rooms that I wanted to live in, down to pictures on the wall and the faces that would be in the photographs, and how the couches would be situated. — Michelle Williams

I'm very conscious of the fact that when I'm working, my daughter is not with one of her parents. — Michelle Williams

Because whatever I feel inside, it has a place to go. It just saves me over and over and over again. — Michelle Williams

Listen, I've always been very headstrong. — Michelle Williams

I want to be like water. I want to slip through fingers, but hold up a ship. — Michelle Williams

An interview is like a minefield. — Michelle Williams

The possibilities are endless for me - Broadway, TV, music and film. — Michelle Williams

My poor mom really wants me to meet someone. I think she wanted to believe the Ryan Gosling rumor more than anybody, — Michelle Williams

I learn a lot; what I learn cannot be expressed in words. — Michelle Williams

The idea that you can get everything you want in one person is destructive, and maybe when you accept that the number is closer to 50 or 60 or 70 percent, that's when you can start to make some progress in choosing the right person. — Michelle Williams

I like to do weird things in the shower, like drink my coffee, brush my teeth and drink a smoothie. It's good time management. — Michelle Williams

I don't believe that life is linear. I think of it as circles - concentric circles that connect. — Michelle Williams

Grief is like a moving river, so that's what I mean by it's always changing. It's a strange thing to say because I'm at heart an optimistic person, but I would say in some ways it just gets worse. It's just that the more time that passes, the more you miss someone. — Michelle Williams

I don't think things through very often - I don't project into the future about how a situation will turn out. — Michelle Williams

I love things that are old and beautiful and tell a story, even if it's a sad one. — Michelle Williams

I'm not lonely, and I think that has a lot to do with what's on my bedside table rather than what's in my bed. — Michelle Williams

I was born with a fierce need for independence. — Michelle Williams

I'm not a happy person when I'm working. — Michelle Williams

I did find my direction at an early age. — Michelle Williams

For me, relationships are the real action movies. Bombs are exploding every day and the kitchen is Ground Zero. — Michelle Williams

I'm not making any bets on the future. — Michelle Williams

I'm not going to rush anything and scamper around like a mad person and make myself crazy. — Michelle Williams

And I think my daughter knows now that our life is split in two. Half of the year is spent with Mommy working and the other is spent with no work in sight. — Michelle Williams

I experienced a lot of loss after his death. I lost my city because of all the paparazzi descending upon us. I actually lost my journal during that time, oddly enough. I literally couldn't hold on to anything. — Michelle Williams

It felt as if things were literally slipping through my fingers. Things were just streaming away from me. I lost my sense of humor. I'm still looking for that. — Michelle Williams

I love domestic life. — Michelle Williams

I don't know what 15-year-old doesn't have a desire to separate themselves from their parents and prove their independence. — Michelle Williams