Quotes from Michelle Williams

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

Listen, I've always been very headstrong.

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

I am a huge Leonard Cohen person.

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.

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

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.

An interview is like a minefield.

I love domestic life.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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 was born with a fierce need for independence.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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