Claire Danes quotes - page 2

Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl. (Claire Danes)

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.

Claire Danes

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.

Claire Danes

This business can be very erratic and intense ... You can be the subject of great attention, both positive and negative. You really do have to tether yourself when you're a teen star. If you don't have that tether, then you're really lost.

Claire Danes

I would sign on for projects that were meant to shoot in July, and then they would postponed and they would bleed into the following semester, and then I'd take a semester off, and then the movie would collapse.

Claire Danes

I know, it's true. I've played these tortured teenagers. I can't wait to shed that image.

Claire Danes

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.

Claire Danes

I get a little jealous of these actor boys. They walk into a club, and in two seconds flat there are swarms of girls who are wanting so badly to touch them or just say hello. That's not the case with me, or any other girl I know.

Claire Danes

I finally realized that yeah I did want to be an actor and it wasn't out of habit, but I needed to grow up for myself and then kind of re-enter the industry with a sound understanding of what my sensibilities and my values are as a relatively formed human being.

Claire Danes

You have to pick your battles on set.

Claire Danes

It's very difficult to judge yourself. Extreme self-doubt is only attractive when it's fictionalized. Which is why people love the movies. They are so reassuring. (Claire Danes)

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.

Claire Danes

I'm only realizing now that I was a child actress because I always took myself so seriously.

Claire Danes

Some of my happiest moments have been dancing.

Claire Danes

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.

Claire Danes

I should be so lucky to be a misfit. I aspire to be a misfit.

Claire Danes

Relationships are a constant negotiation and balance.

Claire Danes

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

Claire Danes

There was a solid year and a half, perhaps two years, after making 'Temple Grandin,' when I didn't do anything. I just didn't have much patience for roles that were silly, or light, or inconsequential.

Claire Danes

I played a girl. There's really nothing controversial about her. She's just fine. She has to be fine in order to make Sarah Jessica's character pop. I say I just play a white girl in that movie.

Claire Danes

I love sitting in the makeup trailer and getting my makeup done in 15 minutes as opposed to an hour and a half. (Claire Danes)

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

Claire Danes

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

Claire Danes

I used to have nightmares when I was a little kid that I woke up prematurely and opened all the Christmas presents. And then I would be so relieved when I woke up and I realized that I hadn't done it.

Claire Danes

I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior. I am really interested in feelings and think they are what define us as a species. When you really get it right in acting, it's an act of empathy. You feel less distant from others, and that is really exciting.

Claire Danes

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