Quotes from Michelle Williams

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

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'm not making any bets on the future.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I did find my direction at an early age.

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

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

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 like to do weird things in the shower, like drink my coffee, brush my teeth and drink a smoothie. It's good time management.

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.

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

I want a happy life.