Michelle Williams Quotes
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I love things that are old and beautiful and tell a story, even if it's a sad one.
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I mean, I am still such the-good-girl. I want everybody to like me. I want everybody to be happy.
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I don't believe that life is linear. I think of it as circles - concentric circles that connect.
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I was born with a fierce need for independence.
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I want to be like water. I want to slip through fingers, but hold up a ship.
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Is there anything better than making a kid laugh?
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There was a weird, innate kind of understanding between me and Christina (Ricci). A psychic told us we were sisters in a past life.
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Whatever education I got was from experience and reading. But I also realize I wouldn't pass my friend's sixth-grade class.
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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.
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Even the simplest things, I'm guilty of making really bad decisions a lot of the time.
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I love domestic life.
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An interview is like a minefield.
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When I was filming the Marilyn Monroe movie, I was listening to a lot of Leonard Cohen.
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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.
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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.
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Because whatever I feel inside, it has a place to go. It just saves me over and over and over again.
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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.
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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.
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I don't know what my version of a relationship or marriage is yet, because the typical model seems a little broken to me.
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I'm not a happy person when I'm working.
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My poor mom really wants me to meet someone. I think she wanted to believe the Ryan Gosling rumor more than anybody.
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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.
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I'm not making any bets on the future.
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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.
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I just came in this morning with one goal; to make it back tonight, so I'm very excited for the final.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I did find my direction at an early age.
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