Allison Williams Quotes

I'm not somebody who plans. There were times I planned a lot in my life, and it never turns out how you plan it. So I think it's important not to. I'm a very spontaneous person.

The way that I live my life is on spontaneity.

I am a control freak, but not when I travel. For some reason when I travel, I am able to surrender more than in my real life. I am able to let go. I think it's why I like it so much.

I find myself changing my entire lifestyle every three years or so, and I'm comfortable in being an outsider. I have grown up like that.

My life and career have been a big improvisation.

Life is an art, not a science. You make it up as you go along.

The biggest threat to a better life is the desire to keep the future under control - to make the world predictable by reining in creativity and enterprise. Progress as a neat blueprint, with no deviations and no surprise, may work in children's cartoons or utopian novels. But it's just a fantasy.

I know for sure that nothing is guaranteed. Life always changes. I know for sure that I'm open to all possibilities always... let's just say my life is never boring.

I've never followed a list in my life, and that's probably what has created so much nervous energy in my body.

I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.

There are always things to examine. What's great is not feeling that I have to refuse any of them. Maybe no good from a PR perspective, but from the point of view of everyday life, it keeps things interesting.

She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?

The worst question is, 'Where do you see yourself in five years?' I don't know. Variety is the spice of life. That's the best way to describe it.

When I was younger, I talked to the adults around me that I respected most about how they got where they were, and none of them plotted a course they could have predicted, so it seemed a waste of time to plan too long-term. Since then, I've always gone on my instincts.

I'm never going to rule anything out in life, because most of what I'm doing now, I never intended to do.

I live my life on self-belief and I live it partly on going with the flow.

Sometimes I make it to parties and sometimes I don't. Social life is always something you can go back to.

We can't plan life. All we can do is be available for it.

There is no facet of my professional life that doesn't require or request improvisation.

I've learned to respect the whimsical.

I'm very unpredictable, but at the end of the day, I'm working. Sometimes things change in my life. It's like, 'Hold up - that ain't feel good. That felt good.' And that's how I look at anything I do.

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

I used to have all these plans and think 'Ah, I have my whole life figured out', but then I realized no matter how much I plan: life happens! So I find myself living day to day trying to do my best, embracing every moment as a learning opportunity and chance to get to know myself a little more.

In real life we don't know what's going to happen next. So how can you be that way on a stage? Being alive to the possibility of not knowing exactly how everything is going to happen next - if you can find places to have that happen onstage, it can resonate with an experience of living.

I always tell people that my life is in pencil; I have to keep an eraser in my hand because I could always get a call that could change everything.