Personally, until Mike Trout came into the league I thought I would be in the conversation for best player in the game. Then he screwed that up for everybody – Babe Ruth and Ted Williams included. He has ruined it for everyone.
I always say that I want to play Serena Williams if they ever did a biopic of hers. I definitely want to do that, and I want to do some films.
I want to do a Tennessee Williams play.
We studied so much Shakespeare in drama school and I’d like to go back to that. I’d really throw myself into something that would probably petrify me. Tennessee Williams. Something juicy.
I think Serena Williams is the best tennis player of this generation, if not the best ever. It is amazing for her to be playing as well as she is at the age of 31.
Ted Williams, an extraordinary hitter in his day, has said the swing starts in the hips, and Sosa arrived with one of the strongest lower bodies in the game.
I feel that I’m in good company behind the wheel of the Williams FW08C. It was the first F1 car to be driven by the great Ayrton Senna, and it won the 1983 Monaco Grand Prix.
I’ve always had an affinity for writers who have a poetry background, so I always liked Tennessee Williams.
To those people doubting Serena Williams, writing her off – do not do that to a champion.
To this day, people are still talking about the Coral Casino’s parties of the ’30s, ’40s, ’50s – complete with antidotes of Errol Flynn’s swan dives, Marlon Brando’s secret cigar smoking spots, and Ester Williams’ Aquacades.
I like sunny stories. You know, my favorite girls in the ’50s were Debbie Reynolds, Doris Day, and Esther Williams.
Why turn away from that talent? What is it in today’s parties that is virtually saying, ‘Well, if you’re a George Williams or Garr Barwick, you may not get pre-selection?’ I’d like to reverse that.
‘An Audience With Kenneth Williams.’ My wife and I went with him to the recording. He was paid £10,000, the largest fee he had ever received and was so nervous he was shaking. But his performance was matchless. He knew it was the best thing he’d ever done.
Over the years, I’ve come to realize that writing ‘I Ain’t Living Long Like This’ was an exercise in combined musical influence, mostly that of Hank Williams, Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, the Beatles, and Bob Dylan – artists no one has ever heard of.
Standing and playing next to Tony Williams was pretty amazing. One of the things I learned about being a band leader from Tony was that he would never, ever tell me what to play or do.
I really like Holly Williams. I’ve said that a bunch, but her song ‘Drinkin’,’ I just love it.
It’s a pretty cool feeling to be the person to knock down a barrier – just like the Williams sisters did in tennis or Tiger Woods in golf.
Because of John Williams, I began collecting all kinds of film scores. I listened to them when I fell asleep, and it was through my obsessive listening that I learned what all the different parts of the orchestra were. I learnt a great deal from him by just simply listening.
I went on the Andy Williams show, the Smothers Brothers show, and maybe I shouldn’t have. But regrets – I don’t think I have any.
You have to understand, when you’re 15 and you’re doing this Steven Spielberg movie with megastars – Robin Williams, Dustin Hoffman, Julia Roberts – you know you want to be cool. I don’t know how cool I’m going to look with my belly button out!
I have a lovely light blue Kate Spade wallet. It has pockets for many credit cards, business cards, health insurance cards, and a Burke Williams card for when I want to go to the spa!
I grew up in Arizona listening to Hank Williams Jr., Johnny Cash, Tammy Wynette, and Dolly Parton.
Little girls need someone to look up to – and little boys need strong women to look up to, as well. I don’t think your heroes should be relegated to someone who’s the same sex or from the same background as you. Little boys should grow up wanting to be like Serena Williams.
I left home when I was 17 with Joe Williams.
I’m very fond of Tennessee Williams’ plays, and when my husband and I went to New Orleans in the late 1970s, we saw ‘A Street Car Named Desire.’
My favorite actors are Jim Carrey and Chris Farley, Tom Hanks, Robin Williams. Robin Williams is the best – to be able to do all that comedy but also be heartbreaking.
I would love to add to the rich tradition that Duke University holds on and off the court, and play for one of the all time great coaches, Coach K. I would love to go up to Chapel Hill, play for Roy Williams, and chase back-to-back National Championships at North Carolina.
The argument that capitalism was dependent on slavery is, of course, not new. In 1944, Eric Williams, in ‘Capitalism and Slavery,’ made the case.
I can’t get into the underlying psyche of someone like Robin Williams, but he was at that level of fame where he was somewhat self-protective.
I don’t think there is ever going to be another Serena Williams.
I was in so many Esther Williams pictures with Ricardo Montalban and I always was his girl no matter what the story.
Robin Williams understands sonic performances. He understands what it’s like to change your voice up.
Do you think I am standing here, making this up as I go? I am sorry to disillusion you. I am not Robin Williams. I am the king of the pen.
I indeed had only one scene, one speech, one little speech, but it was with Robin Williams.
My victory against Venus was the most special. She’s is a multi grand slam champion; her sister is Serena Williams. I was like, ‘What is going on?’ I broke her five times in a row. She is one of the best servers in the game.
People will say I’m only where I am because of my husband or because the team might want to employ a woman, but you don’t get to drive a Formula 1 car unless you’re good enough, especially with a top team like Williams.
For a man who purports to have learned of media ethics only this month, Mr. Williams has spent an undue amount of time appearing as a media ethicist on both CNN and the cable news networks of NBC.
Ted Williams was the greatest hitter I ever saw, but DiMaggio was the greatest all around player.
I was not a fan. Moreover, I reveled in not being a fan, as though not being able to tolerate Robin Williams was one of the things by which I defined myself.
I always think Michelle Williams is excellent in her work. And I do love Sofia Coppola. She always creates something so atmospheric. I love Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola, Andrea Arnold.
I am very indebted to southern writers and not just Flannery O’Connor. Also Harry Crews, Larry Brown, Tennessee Williams, Barry Hannah and William Gay.
As an actor, I felt I couldn’t compete. I wasn’t as cute as the leading man; I wasn’t as brilliant as Robin Williams.
I recently did a piece for the Boston Pops and John Williams, and I hope that it’s as well a composed piece as I’ve ever done for any other medium or occasion.
I grew up listening to Steve Martin and Robin Williams, so I didn’t ever intend to be a musical comedian. I sort of stumbled into it.
I remember once they sent me over to read for a show called ‘Mork and Mindy.’ I heard gales of laughter, then Robin Williams walked out. I had to follow Robin Williams.
To a crowd that loves improv, Robin Williams is like Chuck Berry.
Roy Williams has been a great coach every game since the beginning at Kansas.
I’ll never outdo Hank Williams. That’s impossible.
Tennessee Williams knew about the South, but he would clean it up and lie about it.
Having been aware of the Red Sox since the 1946 World Series, having been growled at by Ted Williams as a young reporter in 1960, having been present at the horror of 1986 and the comeback of 2004, I have seen the highs and lows of some other people’s favorite team.
NBC anchor Brian Williams is a standup comic in disguise.
My grandfather was the general counsel for the Washington Senators, and my dad grew up on Ted Williams’ lap.
Jeff Williams, Apple’s senior vice president of operations, has been called ‘Tim Cook’s Tim Cook’ by some.
Everyone talks about the good old days, when guys were tough and quarterbacks got crushed all the time, but back in the day, there weren’t defensive ends that were Mario Williams – 6-7, 300 pounds, 10 percent body fat, running a 4.7 40.
Even when I was 3 or 4 years old, I’d go out riding in the car with mom and dad, and I already knew all the songs off mom’s Hank Williams and George Jones records by heart. I remember just sitting in the back seat and singing them at the top of my lungs.
I ran into my old friend Michael Kenneth Williams, who I worked with on a show called ‘The Philanthropist’ for NBC. He was going to be doing this show called ‘Hap and Leonard.’ He was playing Leonard, and they were looking for somebody to play Hap.
When you think about the greats, like Jim Reeves and Eddy Arnold and George Morgan, there really isn’t that much of a difference between their singing and Andy Williams and Perry Como. It’s just the instrumentation that was a lot different.
Everything about Hank Williams interests me. His music, his life. His death. His impact.
Everything you want Robin Williams to be, he delivered in spades.
I always turn to Wendy Williams when there’s any type of ethical or moral crisis in our country.
