Allison Williams Quotes
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I'm a big Aqua fan. 'Barbie Girl' was a big deal growing up.
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I auditioned for 'Girls' the fall after I graduated from Yale. The show has been amazing - as close to perfect as it gets!
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In order to have skin that glows and looks healthy and actually is healthy, you need to look at the whole picture and have a holistic approach to it. A lot of it is exercising regularly, drinking enough water, getting enough sleep, and keeping stress down.
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I've done so many funny jobs. I worked at a farmer's market through high school. I worked in the stock room of Ralph Lauren. I graduated to salesperson at Ralph Lauren, which was a big deal to me. I've been a P.A. I've been a stand-in. I've been an assistant's assistant.
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I am traditional: a big note writer, and I like using the phone.
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'Girls' was my first audition. I'd just taken an audition class, and I was excited to implement those tools.
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I can rap. Not openly in the world, but it's important that people know! I can rap for a very specific reason, which is that in college I was in an improv comedy group, and we did musical improv.
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I put so much pressure on myself to be perfect. Between homework and sports and drama and being social, I slept about four hours a night through high school and college.
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Everyone wants to feel like they were the one and only person that the other person could ever fall in love with.
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I told my parents I wanted to be an actress years before I wrapped my head around what my dad did for a living. It's not easy to explain the job of the television journalist, especially when a lot of my friends' dads had jobs that were a lot easier to explain, like a lawyer, a banker or a doctor.
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Trying to imagine what it's like to be someone else is never a substitute for actually living that way, for acknowledging the respect that we need to have for each other's experiences.
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I'm a master assembler of Ikea furniture, in case anyone wants to know.
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As an actor, I love the feeling of being on set and the camaraderie of working on something together.
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To try and to pretend that there's no difference between where we come from is so dumb.
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I do not want to ask people to go consume something unless I think it is important in some way.
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I don't want to be any more interesting than I am. I love the life that I get to live, which is one of real independence and privacy and autonomy.
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I know what I'm like when I don't have a project coming up, and that's the mode I'm almost more comfortable in. That's when I get really scrappy and creative.
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I was only allowed only to watch public television until I was 12 years old.
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My mom has beautiful eyes, and I inherited a lot of her rituals, accentuating eyes.
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I would never tell someone else how to use their platform, because I think I'm much more comfortable allowing the work that I do to speak for itself.
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I don't understand how some of these young actresses are wearing such provocative, editorial items, when they haven't even established a career yet. It's hard to see past that. I'm not so sure that's smart in the long run.
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When I graduated from college in early 2010, I decided that I needed to create a calling card, some kind of business card that people can link to my name and face. So I did this 'Mad Men Theme Song... With a Twist' music video. I released it just as I moved to L.A.
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I am in the fortunate-enough position where I can be picky.
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Showing 'Get Out' to a room full of strangers and having them react lets them be introspective and see the way certain images affect other people.