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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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.
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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 definitely hand myself over to the hair and makeup gods of 'Girls.' Our look on the show is very specific, and it's different from mine in real life, although I've definitely learned things from working with both the hair and makeup people for the show.