Allison Williams
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Demographics
Gender Female
Birth Name Allison Howell Williams
Birthplace New Canaan, Connecticut, U.S.
Birth Date April 13, 1988
Ethnicity Northwestern European
Overview Irish, Swedish, German, English, Scottish, some French
Nationality American
Career Actor, comedian, singer
Color Season Soft Summer
Notes and Motifs
Known for starring on the series Girls and in the films Get Out, The Perfection, Horizon Line, and M3GAN
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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."