Top 174 Quotes & Sayings by Claire Danes - Page 2
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Last updated on December 24, 2024.
People with bipolar disorder have difficulty with boundaries.
Voice over can be tricky. It can be dangerous because it's over-used or inappropriately used.
I think it's important to never play 'crazy' - you have to know what kind of crazy you're playing.
You have to stay hydrated when you have crying scenes.
Any story is better with a little love in it, right?
I really liked Yale, although it was extremely intimidating. When I visited the campus, I was hiding behind trees, I felt so unworthy.
I am not a genius. But I am nerdy.
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.
I would rather not work than be a neurotic mess.
Every time I make a movie, I'm prepared for it to become influential and career-defining - but I have no control over these things.
I got an agent when I was 12, and I started working in more amateur productions well before that. But even as a kid, I never felt like a kid actor, you know? I always took myself kind of absurdly seriously.
But I don't know if people are meant to be together. You have to have a lot in common, choose well and be really fortunate. It's not like you're sprinkled with fairy dust. You have to believe that love will be there when you need it.
In New York City, everybody goes into therapy.
My parents never condescended to me. As a child, I always sat at the head of our dinner table. I was always given a lot of responsibility.
I fantasized about being a psychology major when I first started school, and I took a handful of Psych 101 classes.
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.
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 particularly love Israel. I've had fantastic experiences there.
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.
Psychology and acting are very closely linked. It's just about studying people and how they work. It can be an incredible discipline and exercise.
When I was a kid, I was one of those really obnoxious 'oooh oooh' girls, with my hand up in the air constantly. I've learned over the years that that's not so attractive, so I've censored that.
I don't know any celebrated people that register in a big way who aren't unique.
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 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 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.
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.
We just can't shake monogamy. It definitely demands a kind of rigor and discipline and selflessness. But it's also fun.
Steve Martin is one of my favorite performers, writers, artists of all time.
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.
As a young performer, I didn't know that you can have a great time playing someone in terrible crisis. The more you know it's not real, the deeper you can go into it. And the easier it is to let it go when it's done.
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.
It just seems like the most successful, iconic love stories are not so easy or escapist. I think the ones that stay with us and resonate are full of conflict, discord and misunderstandings 'cause that's what makes drama happen or tension even if it's a comedy.
The big question is always, 'Eyes or lips?' I tend to go with the eyes because I've got a lot more material to work with now - and it saves me from reapplying lipstick! I'm a pretty low-maintenance person and it's too excessive to exaggerate both the eyes and lips.
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.
I think people who make movies and have invested a lot of money in them get frightened that if they challenge an audience they are going to repel them. And I think the opposite; it's really true.
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.
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.
I'm exceptionally open with my own parents, and they're exceptionally open with me.
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.
Actors want to surprise themselves. When it's really good, you kind of transcend yourself, and that happens infrequently. Very, very rarely.
I was a very confident child. I knew I wanted to be an actress from the age of 5.
I've always had a really active imagination. Lots of kids have imaginary friends. Mine just took on a rather demonic form.
I'm just always learning lines. I've learned to flag the really crucial scenes, and I start figuring them out and committing them to memory as soon as I get them.
I know, it's true. I've played these tortured teenagers. I can't wait to shed that image.
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.
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.
You have to pick your battles on set.
If I took my characters home with me, half of my life would be a misery, I think. No, I tend to compartmentalize work from my life. I'm not terribly method.
Oliver Stone's strategy is to unnerve the actors so as to make them alert and alive.
On a film you can really get away with learning the scene the night before and that's often just not possible with TV, so you have to be a little bit more prepared a little bit more in advance.
I discovered Christopher Isherwood in college. His writing style is so direct, warm, and inclusive.
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 I would make a lousy stay-at-home mom. It just wouldn't suit me.
I can get a dance party started pretty much anywhere and anytime.
I like marriage. I feel very secure. It helps when you are in love with the person you are married to.
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.
The first time I realised I was patriotic was after September 11th.
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.
I think 'Breaking Bad' is incredible.
College was just so essential for my sense of self and my development.
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