Williams: "I put so much pressure on myself to be perfect. Between homework and sports and drama and being social, I slept about four hours a night through high school and college."

Williams: "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."

Williams: "I always ask, 'Is this movie essential? Does this movie need to exist? Does it need to exist right now?' And the answer to that is almost always no."

Williams: "I think I've always had that bird's-eye view of myself. I think it's an actor trait... Sometimes it's best just to get lost out there, but other times you have to be aware of where the light's hitting you."

Williams: "I'm very protective; it's in my wiring."

Williams: "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."

Williams: "I do not want to ask people to go consume something unless I think it is important in some way."

Williams: "In most cases, no one asks what I think, and so for me to be ready to volunteer it unprompted, I have to feel very ready to accept whatever is coming next."

Williams: "I wake up every morning thinking I need to be edgier."

Williams: "Sometimes fake laughing is hard once you've done a scene 18 times. I don't want to brag, but I have a reputation for being very, very good at that. It's funny finding what's challenging about acting as you go."

Williams: "I know what I'm like when I don't have a project coming up, and that's the mode I'm almost more comfortable in. That's when I get really scrappy and creative."

Williams: "I don't understand how some of these young actresses are wearing such provocative, editorial items, when they haven't even established a career yet. It's hard to see past that. I'm not so sure that's smart in the long run."

Williams: "I love seeing blank days in my calendar."

Williams: "We live in the Facebook era. I think everyone, not just celebrities, have an unprecedented level of self-awareness, of presenting yourself to the world. The truth is, it starts with how you look, and that goes into how you dress."

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

Williams: "I can rap. Not openly in the world, but it's important that people know! I can rap for a very specific reason, which is that in college I was in an improv comedy group, and we did musical improv."

Williams: "I am traditional: a big note writer, and I like using the phone."

Williams: "I read very one-note. Teacher's pet, Goody Two-shoes. I'd hate to be annoying. Who wants to see movies with someone annoying in them? But it's hard for me to paint myself as anything but whatever it is I come across as - which is pretty together."

Williams: "To try and to pretend that there's no difference between where we come from is so dumb."

Williams: "I would never tell someone else how to use their platform, because I think I'm much more comfortable allowing the work that I do to speak for itself."

Williams: "Even when I was a child, my best friend was a 92-year-old woman."

Williams: "When I was little, I used to watch Disney movies all the time, and it drove me crazy that Cinderella's tights wouldn't gather at her ankle when her foot bent, so I kept trying to make sure that I didn't get those little creases on my ankle because Cinderella didn't have them."

Williams: "I will never actually be able to know what it's like to go through life in someone else's body."

Williams: "I cannot wait until the day I can go back to school... I've already picked my program: anthropology at Columbia. I will not get in, but a girl can dream."