I feel like I`m watching a movie. I watch the news and the television, and I think it`s going to hit me sometime soon.

I was born with a fierce need for independence.

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

We definitely see it as a second home. We`re really set on making that commitment to this city even though it is more difficult to be here because we`re more visible here than in (New York`s) Brooklyn.

"There was a weird, innate kind of understanding between me and Christina (Ricci). A psychic told us we were sisters in a past life."

Beyonce and Kelly to me are like sisters.

We had lived in blissful anonymity until that story came out. There were photographers around the next day.

Just seeing him [on television] and being able to see his eyes and his reaction to his rescue just took a huge load off my shoulders.

I went to sleep with the news every night,

Diamonds Are a Girl`s Best Friend.

In ten years, I would like to live on a river and to be known to be in one of the most succesful singing groups.

There was a sense of being taken on a journey by the grandmaster of the road trip. You feel this weird angel taking you somewhere. You don`t know where, but you trust him.

On her character Jen: "She`s this stable, happy-go-lucky girl still wrestling with demons; she grew up quickly at a real fast pace. Of course I can relate to that." - USA Today

"I don`t want to be an unhealthy role model"- Michelle Sunday`s Daily News

"I think it`s a lot sexier not to flaunt everything"

"I came to L.A. so wide-eyed, the picture of fresh-faced innocence -- and so fucking excited. I just thought I would work! I just thought I would play cool parts!"

"Whatever happened to really awesome hardcore chicks like the Runaways? How did we all get so fluffy all of a sudden?" - Michelle from Paper Magazine

"It`s the woman/child thing that I`ve got going on inside my head, I have always felt older than I am and most of my friends are considerably older than me. I just never` related to kids my own age." - The Record

"I`ve just never been that comfortable around people my own age, so I`ve always dated older men." - Maxim

"Making a lifestyle out of going to premieres is just a dead end. I can`t imagine anything worse than a crowd of people. It makes me ill. Honestly, I would rather be at the dentist." - Movieline

"I dont want to be the `it` girl"

"All the mistakes, all the good times and bad, have really shaped me and changed me"

"I thought `Lassie` was bad. But having worms come out of your face? Never do a sci-fi movie in high school."- Michelle,TV-guide`

"My parents are so proud. I did a movie called Dick, I got naked on stage, now I`m doing this HBO thing where I`m a lesbian. I mean, good God, I`m just causing shame to my household!"

"A lot of trousers, vintage beaded sweaters, with the occasional pink one. Funny T-shirts, a favourite pair of motorcycle boots. My black leather BCBG pants. I feel like a rock star [in them]. I have a lot of ballet slipper-type shoes I got in New York for $6." Speaking about her dress sense

"I love theater so much. It`s just so safe and free there. The liveness. I think that`s the beauty of it, the purity of it. Theater gets me back to everything I started acting for." - The (Albany, New York) Times Union

Her character, Jen Lindley, the gradually reforming vixen, has recently deflowered the saintly Dawson Leery.

"I learn a lot; what I learn cannot be expressed in words." -Michelle Williams on how the characters she portrays influence her.

I can`t watch myself [in movies]. I used to think I was cool. Now, my standpoint is that I can`t be fair. So I can`t pass any judgment.

[On working on her film Timemaster (1995)] "It was so awful. We turn the `M` upside down and called it Timewaster".

Outside of the business during a dry spell, I scooped ice cream at a country fair, and I ate more than I sold. Making a cone is difficult, and I lost so many scoops into the chocolate swirl.