J.M. Williams Quotes

I use Twitter a lot. That's how I communicate with international fans. Everyone's always really, really nice.

It's huge in the U.K., if someone's doing well, to put them down. That's what we do all the time. It's kind of like a cultural thing.

When I come home, I'm just Maisie, and everywhere I go, I'm just Maisie!

I watch vlogs on YouTube. I watch Jenna Marbles a lot - I think she's really funny - and a lady called Daily Grace.

I do ballet and pointe work. I also do tap, commercial jazz and technical jazz, freestyle street dancing.

I have a Facebook page for me and my friends and a Twitter page.

Within a few hours I had them off, was about ready to play the shows. That night I opened, and during the week Harris was over to the house to talk my mother into letting me leave home.

Just showing that what I did at the combine wasn't a fluke.

I'd like to say I'm one of the tight ends here and I hope this week helps me show that I do have the talent to be considered that.

I have to go out there and show scouts and GMs and coaches just what I can do: Run as fast as I can and try to show them I have great hands and good technique where I can be on the line blocking.

Never grieve for me if it is my good fortune to die with my boots on. That's what I most hope for.

When Luis Marden dropped in by air from Säo Paulo, he demanded gauchos.

The most successful people reach the top not because they are free of limitations, but because they act in spite of their limitations

I'm more liable to hurt myself than someone else.

My job is to bring to life the character, not to put the words on the paper.

Music's been part of my entire life. It's in my DNA.

My goal is to end mass incarceration and change the laws to stop locking up low-level, nonviolent drug charges. Stop charging drug addicts as criminals.

I'm looking for diversity, all my characters may or may not be on the wrong side of the tracks. It doesn't mean that they're all the same.

I'm good with all my roles, I've never had a bad role.

Our criminal justice system has swallowed up too many people I love. I am proud to join the ACLU in the fight to make mass incarceration a thing of the past.

Doing something that warrants the attention of the President of the United States is super-cool.

The arts saved my life.

For me, my past characters been hard, the way they died, being murdered, the sadness that goes around, the death. It's a very hard thing to do.

Ending a television character that you've been, especially someone like Omar Little, it hurts. For me, it's a huge thing. You feel like a part of you is gone.

You have to put your character to rest after x amount of years.

I have a very healthy appetite for good writing and good characters. Having weak writing is my biggest fear.

My main goal, starting out as a young actor, was to carry the reins that Pac left off and to reach the depths as an actor that I know he would have reached had he still been here with us.

I don't consider myself a person of fashion because it's too sophisticated. My thing is I look at style like swagger. I like things that pull me, that I gravitate to.

My thing is to gain the respect as an actor, as a professional, and the friendship and everything else will happen from there.

I come to work on time. I focus on my job. I bust my scenes out and everything else kind of happens from there.

Music is always a part of my characters' make-up.

If you've ever felt oppressed on any level, there's something from 'The Wire' that you can take and identify with.

I came out the womb dancing.

I got picked on a lot as a kid.

I know plenty of adults who act like teenagers.

All my characters have playlists.

The Wire' is very realistic and based on real events.

I'm totally comfortable today with the success that Omar and 'The Wire' have brought me - living with that character, being recognized and remembered for that character.

I'm not lonely, and I think that has a lot to do with what's on my bedside table rather than what's in my bed.

An interview is like a minefield.

I am a huge Leonard Cohen person.

I'm not a happy person when I'm working.

I don't think things through very often - I don't project into the future about how a situation will turn out.

I had always been kind of obsessed with making a home of my own and was always drawing rooms that I wanted to live in, down to pictures on the wall and the faces that would be in the photographs.

Oh, Zoe Kazan - I'd move back to Brooklyn for her. She makes me happy with my life. Knowing her, being at her dinner table, going on a walk with her is the best of all possible worlds.

Even the simplest things, I'm guilty of making really bad decisions a lot of the time.

For this relay there was a little more pressure because it's the 200, you have to make sure you swim it smart. The 100 was more about energy.

I just came in this morning with one goal; to make it back tonight, so I'm very excited for the final.

I'm not going to rush anything and scamper around like a mad person and make myself crazy.

The possibilities are endless for me - Broadway, TV, music and film.