Michelle Williams Quotations

I was born with a fierce need for independence.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

I did find my direction at an early age.

I feel like I'm watching a movie. I watch the news and the television, and I think it's going to hit me sometime soon.

I went to sleep with the news every night,

It'd be a very expensive trial and error.

When you're in a relationship with somebody who is also a public personality, then it doubles the attention from the media.

You should see how she looks at her daddy.

Oh, thank you, Kelly. I feel the same about you.

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

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

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

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'm not making any bets on the future.

Is there anything better than making a kid laugh?

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.

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

I love domestic life.

I am a huge Leonard Cohen person.

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

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.

Listen, I've always been very headstrong.

From Blue Valentine I kept my wedding ring. I actually kept it on for a while. After the shooting had stopped, I was still wearing it – I couldn’t quite take it off – and now I keep it above the kitchen sink where I do dishes, as a little memento.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Relationships have always seemed very mysterious, and therefore worth exploring. I’m single, so it’s still kind of a mystery — a worthwhile mystery, one that I want to be on the scent of . . . 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.

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.

An interview is like a minefield.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.