Quotes By Michelle Williams

I love domestic life.

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

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

I'm Norwegian.

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

I did find my direction at an early age.

I am a huge Leonard Cohen person.

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

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 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.

I want a happy life.

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

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

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.

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 was born with a fierce need for independence.

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.

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

Listen, I've always been very headstrong.