Claire Danes Quotes

Once you get over that peak of puberty, you hit a nice stride.

I think I would make a lousy stay-at-home mom. It just wouldn't suit me.

Yeah, there was the Flora Plum thing, where I trained for about a month and I had taken a semester off for that, and two weeks prior to filming, the financing collapsed.

Autism does exist on a spectrum, and there are so many manifestations of it, so many kinds of expressions of it. And every case is particular.

If you do something that you're not genuinely passionate about, it is a little soul-crushing. Just not worth it.

Growing up in New York City, I was always encouraged to question authority, and I think I confused patriotism with jingoism.

It's funny with jeans now, because if they don't feel like a pair of sweatpants, I don't have patience for them anymore! I think I'm becoming increasingly lazy.

Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found.

You don't realize how useful a therapist is until you see yourself on e and discover you have more problems than you ever dreamed of.

Every three seconds in the developing world, a child dies needlessly due to lack of basic health care and other things we all take for granted.

Huge events take place on this earth every day. Earthquakes, hurricanes, even glaciers move. So why couldn't he just look at me?

Counterterrorism isn't really about the nunchakus, the guns and gadgets. It's about psychology.

What I needed was a connection to life that was real and lasting.

Find as many opportunities as you can and clock as many hours as you can.

Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl.

I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I'm really scared of being alone; because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman.

You know, let a few years go by until I hit my midlife crisis. Then that can be documented on film.

I was told that my going to college wouldn't be good for my career. I think that's nonsense. It's good to empower yourself by cutting yourself off from this business every once in a while.

I took three years off. I differentiated myself from the industry. Found my identity - sort of... I haven't graduated yet. I'm not legitimately educated yet, but maybe one day.

I have to say that my dad's face is very malleable. He's barely got any cartilage in his face. I think I maybe inherited that Play-Doh-like physicality from him.

Hatred can become like food, it gives you this energy that you can, like, live off.

I could truly have gone through life thinking that women were these venomous creatures. Turns out, they're not.

You are the most brave intrepid person I have ever known, and you have dedicated your life to helping those who are misunderstood and underrepresented.

I was very driven to act from a very young age, and my parents were not only tolerant of that drive but also encouraging.

I think because I am as earnest as I am, people were accepting of my evolving into a certified, legitimate, and grown up and I did take three years off.

I do know how to fire a machine gun, so be warned! I'm trained!

There's certainly something very uncomfortable about the voyeurism involved in being in the press, being an actor, where people have a seemingly insatiable curiosity about, you.

Fame doesn't end loneliness.

I became very successful at a young age... I had lots of opportunities and lots of power and had no idea how to focus it.

Acting is a humiliating job, from start to finish.

I've never dated (casually). Ever. It's kind of weird. I did have a boyfriend in junior high who was a kleptomaniac. We'd leave stores and he'd come out with something for me.

People with bipolar disorder have difficulty with boundaries.

I'm so impressed by Jennifer Lawrence and Carey Mulligan. They have this exquisite taste. They are very gifted in their ability to make great choices.

I really liked Yale, although it was extremely intimidating. When I visited the campus, I was hiding behind trees, I felt so unworthy.

I hadn't been free from adult responsibilities since I was 12, and I needed to experience that. I really needed to just be a kid again.

I really have never been concerned about being beautiful on-screen. That's just not my jam.

Relationships are a constant negotiation and balance.

I've always had a really active imagination. Lots of kids have imaginary friends. Mine just took on a rather demonic form.

I have this book club, and we don't read one book; we offer up a few suggestions and create a library over time.

I like marriage. I feel very secure. It helps when you are in love with the person you are married to.

I've always very earnestly tried to do my best, so I just have to trust that and forgive myself for being fallible.

I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior.

It's my job to find the cornel of truth and then exaggerate, exaggerate, exaggerate until it's of an appropriate scale.

By the time I went to Yale, I'd been acting for a long time and I was really tired of it. I was restless - and a little bored - and I was really eager to investigate different parts of myself.

I actually haven't been approached a whole lot for television, believe it or not.

However, I'm at a very comfortable place in my career and celebrity, in that I don't have to audition as extensively as I used to for roles but yet I'm not immediately recognizable.

I discovered Orson Welles in college; my freshman English professor screened 'Citizen Kane' for us, and I wound up writing a 20-page term paper on it.

I guess I stopped acting when I was 18 and didn't pick it up again until I was 21. That wasn't the plan, though. When I first started at Yale, the plan was to do a movie each summer.

I am not a genius. But I am nerdy.

The first time I realised I was patriotic was after September 11th.