Allison Williams Quotes

Like everybody, I'm making up my life as I go along.

I think the most important part of the teenage years is wondering.

Growing up, I would think I want to do this, I want to do that. You change your mind a million times.

Life flies by, and it's easy to get lost in the blur. In adolescence, it's 'How do I fit in?' In your 20s, it's 'What do I want to do?' In your 30s, 'Is this what I'm meant to do?' I think the trick is living the questions. Not worrying so much about what's ahead but rather sitting in the grey area - being OK with where you are.

I worry that if I enjoy something - like the songs on 'Some Nights' are about wondering about who you are. I'm never quite sure and I'd hate to feel sort of content and get a good sense of who I am because if I know one thing, that's not me. I don't mind not necessarily being happy about it. And that's fine.

It's important that people are open. Some people say, 'I'm going to be a doctor,' and they're a really good doctor. But for the rest of us, it's a big question mark. Just giving yourself a break, letting yourself try new things, and when something doesn't work out, moving along... it's all we can really do.

Oakland Technical High School. Like any high-school experience, it was ambiguous. I was shy with girls; I had friends, but there were times I didn't feel I had the right friends. My grades were only so-so.

Life isn't a science. We make it up as we go.

From 15 to 18, everybody is a different person. Every six months, I have a whole new outlook on life.

As a young man, I experimented with everything.

At 26, I barely knew who I was.

You don't know who you are when you're 14.

My teenage years were pretty - I have regrets about those years. Obviously everyone knows that as a teenager it's really confusing and your feelings are so raw.

I realised years ago that no one really knows what they're doing and you kind of just learn by observing.

Growing up, I had a bit of an identity crisis.

When I first started, I was definitely reserved,. I was still trying to find myself.

I was angry and frustrated when I was younger and didn't know my place in the world.

College is a time where a lot of people try to find themselves.

I've been writing songs since I was a teenager, so one kind of song I've written a lot is about, I don't know, teen angst feelings - feeling unsure of yourself and immature.

I have a lot of growing up to do. But I think, 'Hell, is it too late?'

They keep coming up new all the time - things to perplex you, you know. You settle one question and there's another right after. There are so many things to be thought over and decided when you're beginning to grow up. It keeps me busy all the time thinking them over and deciding what's right. It's a serious thing to grow up, isn't it, Marilla?

The hardest period in life is one’s twenties. It’s a shame because you’re your most gorgeous, and you’re physically in peak condition. But it’s actually when you’re most insecure and full of self-doubt. When you don’t know what’s going to happen, it’s frightening.

Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.

I'm eighteen, and I don't know what I want.

I'm lost in a transition. The old is dead, and I don't know what the new is. The only way to find the new is to start different things and see if there's something that can come out of experimentation. It's somewhat unsettling, but it's a hopeful thing in a way. I've been here before, lots of times.