Allison Williams Quotes

I'm a master assembler of Ikea furniture, in case anyone wants to know.

Allison Williams

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• I've always thought of myself as a character actor, even though I've played some leading-man roles.

  

  Malcolm Gets
  • Character
  • Myself
  • Thought

• I've been an actor now since freshman year of college, so it's 11 or 12 years.

  

  Gabriel Luna
  • College
  • Years
  • Actor

• Any woman who diets all the time can't help but be grouchy. Nobody can be amusing or entertaining on a diet.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Time
  • Help
  • Woman

• When you have Candidate A saying the sky is blue, and Candidate B saying it's a cloudy day, I look outside and I see, well, it's a cloudy day. I should be able to tell my viewers, 'Candidate A is wrong, Candidate B is right,' and not have to say, 'Well, you decide.' Then it would be like I'm an idiot.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Day
  • Sky
  • Blue

• I'm really close to my family, and we talk through things.

  

  Naomi Scott
  • Family
  • Talk
  • Through

• If you want to be a generous giver, you have to watch out for selfish takers.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Want
  • You
  • Selfish

• For seven years I did very little theatre, and I have to make up some time.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Up
  • Time
  • Years

• Every artist is supposed to get emotional. You're painting pictures of emotions.

  

  Wale
  • Artist
  • Emotional
  • Painting

• A pit bull is like a fighter. Every so often it needs to taste blood.

  

  Barry McGuigan
  • Blood
  • Taste
  • Fighter

• I don't go online, I don't read reviews, I try not to look at anything on the Internet.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • Look
  • Internet
  • Try

• They say every writer really just writes about one thing over and over. I guess my one thing is how the past impacts the present.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Past
  • Present
  • They Say

• It's unarguable that the right shoes can really add elegance to an outfit and to the person who's wearing them. Take a pair of high heels, for instance. Suddenly, you're looking taller, shoulders back, body curved.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • High
  • Body
  • Shoes

• I don't really get to see a lot of other comedians, because I work with the same people all the time. The guy I really like is Nick DiPaulo. I love Nick DiPaulo, but again, he's a buddy of mine. But I liked him for a long time. I liked him before he was a buddy of mine.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• I'm interested in Scotland now and then, how it's changed. I want to get the reader to think about that by thinking about something from the past. How has society changed, how has policing changed, have we changed philosophically, psychologically, culturally, spiritually?

  

  Ian Rankin
  • Thinking
  • Society
  • Past

• Many talk much, and indeed well, of what Christ has done for us: but how little is spoken of what he is to do in us! and yet all that he has done for us is in reference to what he is to do in us.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Done
  • Christ
  • Talk

• Look at everything that exists, and observe that it is already in dissolution and change, and as it were putrefaction or dispersion, or that everything is so constituted in nature as to die.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Nature
  • Die

• What I find very interesting is, we're not enthralled by the ancient world, and we've escaped all kinds of ancient preconceptions and assumptions and prejudices. But, nevertheless, we still make that connection between authoritative speech and male speech.

  

  Mary Beard
  • World
  • Interesting
  • Connection

• There's nothing I would retire for, so I won't retire.

  

  James Earl Jones

• Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.

  

  Elizabeth I
  • War
  • Death

• I've always had a fascination about mixing music.

  

  Blake Michael
  • Music

• If the gentleman is not serious, he will not be respected, and his learning will not be on a firm foundation. He considers loyalty and faithfulness to be fundamental, has no friends who are not like him, and when he has made mistakes, he is not afraid of correcting them.

  

  Confucius
  • Friend
  • Mistake
  • Foundation

• If you have no shame, and it’s your goal to get people into bed, how much higher could your success rate possibly be?

  

  Stephen Malkmus Pavement
  • Goal
  • Shame
  • Rate

• The world we live in is a world of mingled good and evil. Whether it is chiefly good or chiefly bad depends on how we take it. To look at the world in such a way as to emphasize the evil is the art of pessimism. To look at it in such a way as to bring out the good, and throw the evil into the background, is the art of optimism. The facts are the same in either case. It is simply a question of perspective and emphasis.

  

  William DeWitt Hyde
  • Perspective
  • Optimism
  • Backgrounds

• I'm a master assembler of Ikea furniture, in case anyone wants to know.

  

  Allison Williams