Michelle Williams Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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

Listen, I've always been very headstrong.

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

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

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.

Is there anything better than making a kid laugh?

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

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.

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

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.

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

I was born with a fierce need for independence.

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.

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

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

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

I'm not making any bets on the future.

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

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

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

I did find my direction at an early age.

I love domestic life.

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

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

An interview is like a minefield.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

I'm not a happy person when I'm working.

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.

I am a huge Leonard Cohen person.

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.