J.M. Williams Quotes

I have been tied up with music for about as long as I can remember. By the time I was four I was picking out little tunes my mother played on the reed organ in the living-room.

I love making music, though. I love playing.

Family holidays and weekends are really brightly colored memories, full of my mother and father, rather than our nannies and au pairs.

My ideal travel companions are my family.

I don't know what 15-year-old doesn't have a desire to separate themselves from their parents and prove their independence.

Everything that we experience every day leaves a long-lasting impression.

The Republicans want to turn Medicare into a voucher plan that will end guaranteed coverage of medical bills for the elderly.

I guess rumors are more exciting than the truth.

I just try to stay positive and focused on the tennis, not let anything get to me, like crazy questions. But I'm tough, let me tell you, tough as nails.

I think there is a great deal of interest still in the Christian faith.

The principle of the design - the harmony, rhythm and balance are all the same with interior and fashion design.

My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.

A global democracy works only when countries trust one another.

I think a smile can make your whole body. Models, they look fabulous, but they don't smile, and they look so mad.

Therapy was the biggest romance of my life.

People change. I wouldn't like to be accountable for the interviews I've done, or the person I was when I was 20, 21.

It wasn't like I was self-motivated. My dad started me. It was his dream before it was mine.

I'm always on the court with my dad.

TIME's Person of the Year for 2006, maintainer of a foot long beard

I operate with this sense of needing to live up to what I am asking of people. I am, by far, my own worst critic.

I would prefer to keep my clothes on. Unless there's a brisk breeze or something, I tend to keep them on.

I'm a big Aqua fan. "Barbie Girl" was a big deal growing up.

My whole background is character acting: weird costumes, fat suits, playing men, playing animals - I've never played anyone with whom there's any overlapping Venn diagram.

I love making people uncomfortable, and when people say, 'I cringed watching [that] scene,' that's the biggest compliment you can give me.

I'd be worried about myself as a human if I hadn't been nervous.

I auditioned for 'Girls' the fall after I graduated from Yale. The show has been amazing - as close to perfect as it gets!

I started out really into musical theater. So you can imagine I was super popular. I wasn't awkward looking at all.

It's safe to say I'm a comedy nerd. I listen to so many podcasts. I just love to laugh.

I was only allowed only to watch public television until I was 12 years old.

It's very weird waking around a corner and being nose to nose with myself on the side of a bus. And Times Square - that's the craziest one.

I just have always been so interested in the way actors and actresses present themselves to the world because I think it is very important and it affects the way people see you as an actor.

In the end, failing to plan and planning to fail aren't so different.

People talk about 'lives of significance'-as if there's an alternative. If you're not leading a life of significance, you're not living.

Wisdom doesn't teach fools for long.

It's possible to love without sacrificing-but who would notice? For love is demonstrated only through sacrifice-without it, love is invisible.

The more seriously you take yourself, the less others will.

I'll keep going until I get to the point where I can't get out on stage.

I still think I'm not as good as anybody else.

Animals and humans come in many different sizes and colors, but we all have the same loving heart and soul.

The majesty of creation forms my faith in the Creator.

Re-energize your soul... Walk with Mother nature.

We have more to learn from animals than animals have to learn from us.

What you can become depends upon what you can overcome.

Shine your light on love and truth and your soul will glow.

The more time we spend with Mother nature the more we fall in love with her.

What would you think if all your thoughts reached heaven?

Do one act of kindness each day of the year and change 365 lives.

If a thought or an action does not feel right, it is a caution flag from the soul.

Travel the road of love and you will never be lost.

No other animal on earth has portrayed such a disregard for life than mankind.