Quotes By Michelle Williams

I am a huge Leonard Cohen person.

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.

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.

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 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.

Is there anything better than making a kid laugh?

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 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.

I want a happy life.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

I was born with a fierce need for independence.

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

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.

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.

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 going to rush anything and scamper around like a mad person and make myself crazy.

Listen, I've always been very headstrong.

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

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.

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.

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.

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