Top 118 Quotes & Sayings by Maisie Williams

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English actress Maisie Williams.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
Maisie Williams

Margaret Constance "Maisie" Williams is an English actress. Williams made her acting debut in 2011 as Arya Stark, a lead character in the HBO epic medieval fantasy television series Game of Thrones (2011–2019). She garnered critical praise and accolades for her work on the show, receiving two Emmy Award nominations and global recognition. Williams' other television appearances include guest starring as Ashildr in the BBC science fiction series Doctor Who (2015), she has also starred in the British docudrama television film Cyberbully (2015), and in the British science-fiction teen thriller film iBoy (2017). She played Kim Noakes - the central character in comedy action drama series Two Weeks to Live (2020), and portrayed punk rock icon Jordan in Pistol (2022) a biopic about the groundbreaking band the Sex Pistols. Williams has also voiced Cammie MacCloud in the American animated web series Gen:Lock (2019–present).

Boys can just wear a suit on the red carpet and that's fine, but for girls it's all about the way you look, and there are constant comparisons.
I've never really done acting before, 'cause dancing was my first love. And then, I sort of fell into it from a talent competition and never really looked back.
Turning 18 is a big deal. — © Maisie Williams
Turning 18 is a big deal.
I stress out so much about the red carpet and interviews and pictures, and, you know, not getting my skirt tucked in my knickers.
I'm a little bit awkward on Twitter; like, I'm never really sure what to say.
It's never black and white on 'Game of Thrones.' If you think it's black and white, you're watching it wrong.
It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
People throw insults at you, and sometimes they hit a nerve - and it's about not showing that, because they will pick on that. Don't feed the trolls!
I watch vlogs on YouTube. I watch Jenna Marbles a lot - I think she's really funny - and a lady called Daily Grace.
I haven't done Vine in a long time, and when I first started, I just did stuff that I thought was funny.
I'm sorry; I ruin people's interviews because I just talk about rubbish.
There is no easy way to get around horrible people on the Internet, and it's either just leave it or don't and get sucked into the whirlwind of it all.
I guess I'm a bit of a tomboy and can be quite resourceful.
I think a lot of people on Twitter say, 'Oh you're really cute. I want to adopt you,' and things like that, yeah. — © Maisie Williams
I think a lot of people on Twitter say, 'Oh you're really cute. I want to adopt you,' and things like that, yeah.
Sometimes I wish I was more comfortable just saying what I thought and getting my point across.
I struggle to come up to people and say what I think.
I just think something about being in front of a live audience when you've finished a big dance that you've been working on for so long - I don't think anything can really beat that.
I'm a Taylor Swift fan, definitely.
I'd much rather be liked because people realize that I'm standing up for myself.
When I was in primary school, my best friend was a boy and we always goofed around, climbed trees, got holes in my trousers and muddied all my tops and things like that; a complete nightmare for the washing, but great fun.
I once had someone say to me in an interview, 'You are more ugly on the screen than in real life.'
I don't have to be making a lot of money or living in a fancy house.
17 is the weirdest age, because you can't figure out if you want to grow up or be a child.
Sometimes people think they know you and they go, 'Hey!' and then they realize that they've just seen you on the television. That's kind of funny sometimes.
People are like, 'What's Game of Thrones about?' I'm like, 'It's in the title.' For real, this is a game for the Iron Throne. No matter what character you are, you're sucked into that at some point.
No one is born evil; it's just the choices that they make.
I feel people care so much about their appearance - which is important, and I do still care about my appearance, but not that much. There's far more to life than that.
People go down bad paths and they make bad decisions, but it's always justified in their head.
I like 'Glee' a lot. It's kind of like my guilty pleasure.
I'm so excited to be working on 'Doctor Who,' as it's such a big and important part of British culture.
I have this really bad habit of doing things on the Internet and forgetting that the whole world is going to see it.
A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.
I do ballet and pointe work. I also do tap, commercial jazz and technical jazz, freestyle street dancing.
I'd never want to be trapped. I never like to stay in one place too long. I always flit around, I never settle anywhere. So being married would be being trapped.
People don't always do what they say they're going to do.
I don't wanna be liked just because I'm pretty.
'Cake Boss' does massive, massive things, which are great.
When I first watched 'Coraline,' I thought, 'If that ever got adapted...' If it was done by real actors, I think that would be a really fun thing to do, just because it's a kind of whole new universe.
I still study dance, and it's definitely something I want to incorporate in the future. It's always been my first love. — © Maisie Williams
I still study dance, and it's definitely something I want to incorporate in the future. It's always been my first love.
When I come home, I'm just Maisie, and everywhere I go, I'm just Maisie!
When you're filming, it's very different from what you see on screen.
I've had a fast track to who I want to be. I know all of my friends are struggling to what to pick in college, and I've been given a fast pass to kick start my future.
Whether I like it or not, I've become influential to people.
If you're having a down time at school and people are bullying you, they don't know you. They don't have the right to have an opinion on you.
If you've got cool nails, you wake up and you're like, 'Oh, I'm happy now.'
When I'm dancing, I don't know where the confidence comes from, but I just pretend I'm someone else, I think, and then I go out and dance.
Someone once told me that if you respect a person, listen to their opinion. And if you do not respect someone, then do not listen to their opinion. And that works both ways.
Basically, me and Ed Sheeran are kind of Twitter friends - well, I say that. He probably just thinks I'm weird.
For every three scripts that you get through, one will be made, and that doesn't even necessarily mean that they're going to cast you in it. — © Maisie Williams
For every three scripts that you get through, one will be made, and that doesn't even necessarily mean that they're going to cast you in it.
I have a Facebook page for me and my friends and a Twitter page.
I like the fact that when you're put into a really extreme situation, you put everything else aside. You put your ego aside and get on with it, and I quite like that.
I get a lot of fan mail and stuff, and usually it's for me to sign stuff.
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.
In my opinion, nothing changes after you get married. If ain't broke, don't fix it.
It's very different when you're reading a script to when you're watching a movie for the first time.
You know sometimes when you're in a really bad mood and you're not sure why? That's how I get sometimes.
I think people think I'm a lot younger than I am because of how I look on screen.
Most commonly, I've been recognized from people who aren't actually from England.
There's some people that obviously abuse social networking or whatever, but I think it's a fantastic idea. I've never had any bad encounters with any of it.
On my actual 16th birthday, on the actual day, I went home and I had chicken korma and Peshwari naan bread and pilau rice, and that was fantastic.
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