Claire Danes Quotes
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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.
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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.
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I started working when I was very young. I got an agent when I was 12, and fortunately was employed consistently from that point on. So I didn't really go to a conventional high school. I was tutored on sets and things.
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I'm only realizing now that I was a child actress because I always took myself so seriously.
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Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl.
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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.
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I think people of my generation are really worrying about thier zits and getting that date for Friday night. I think that's their reality. I don't' know if they're worrying too hard about their future.
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There is real honor in being a total goofball
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The first time I realised I was patriotic was after September 11th.
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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.
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I was a serious kid to an absurd degree. I was overwhelmed with responsibility. You know, trying to play grown up. I overdid it.
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I fantasized about being a psychology major when I first started school, and I took a handful of Psych 101 classes.
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I have this home in New York, I have a long-term relationship with my boyfriend, who's from Australia, and I had this business that I had maintain. Even though I wasn't actively shooting, there's a lot of peripheral work.
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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.
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With acting there are a lot more choices, With this, I either stick it or I don't. There's something really unforgiving about that.
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I do know how to fire a machine gun, so be warned! I'm trained!
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I really liked Yale, although it was extremely intimidating. When I visited the campus, I was hiding behind trees, I felt so unworthy.
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I've always very earnestly tried to do my best, so I just have to trust that and forgive myself for being fallible.
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Acting is a humiliating job, from start to finish.
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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.
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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.
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When I was 18 I went to college for two years and didn't work for a year which was essential for me, because my identity had been so influenced by my being an actor and I think I just needed to discover what it was to be myself, divorced from all that responsibility.
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I was very driven to act from a very young age, and my parents were not only tolerant of that drive but also encouraging.
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I have to expose myself and then accept the judgment that audiences and critics will have. And that's okay. I appreciate the elliptical nature of it. Sometimes people are more in the mood to be nice to me than others, and that's great.
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I love love and falling in love, but it can get pretty flat real fast.
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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.
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People in the CIA, they marry each other. They're like actors! We have to travel without much warning to far-flung places, and it's very hard to communicate what our experiences are like to those in the outside world.
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I really have never been concerned about being beautiful on-screen. That's just not my jam.
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I used to talk about my personal life all the time. It's the most fun thing to talk about, the people in my life are hurt.
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I don't want to be coy. It's so important for me to be as genuine as possible, so I don't want to stop when it comes to rendering sex the way that most people have it, which is unclothed.
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