Claire Danes famous quotes

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

#Expression #Autism #Doe

I think the voice over actually enhances the various moments instead of compensating for something that's lacking. Voice over can be tricky. It can be dangerous because its over used or inappropriately used. I think in this case it informs the story.
-- Claire Danes

#Thinking #Voice #Stories

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

#Crush #Soul #Passionate

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. It takes confidence and courage to know that and then commit to it.
-- Claire Danes

#Thinking #Opposites #People

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

#Girl #Jealous #Boys

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

#Jobs #Scales

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

#Loneliness #Acting #Answers

I love love and falling in love, but it can get pretty flat real fast.
-- Claire Danes

#Falling In Love #Real #Fall

Find as many opportunities as you can and clock as many hours as you can.
-- Claire Danes

#Opportunity #Hours #Clock

When somebody's ego is in service of really brilliant, innovative work, it's hard to, cause I'm such an asshole, it's hard to criticize their failures as a human sometimes.
-- Claire Danes

#Ego #Causes #Brilliant

My husband and I have watched a lot of Hitchcock movies in bulk, and there's a lot to be gained from that, from focusing strictly on an artists canon.
-- Claire Danes

#Husband #Artist #Canon

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

#Parent #Age #Driven

I was a serious kid to an absurd degree. I was overwhelmed with responsibility. You know, trying to play grown up. I overdid it.
-- Claire Danes

#Kids #Responsibility #Play

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.
-- Claire Danes

#Writing #College #Citizens

My go-to gifts are scarves from my friend Matin Maulawizada's nonprofit organization, Afghan Hands, which supports disenfranchised women in Afghanistan. In exchange for their beautiful embroidery, the women are given financial aid and classes in math and literacy. The scarves are all stunning and one of a kind.
-- Claire Danes

#Beautiful #Math #Hands

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.
-- Claire Danes

#People #Actors #Warning

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.
-- Claire Danes

#Eye #Maintenance #Lips

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

#Taken #Two #Plums

I should be so lucky to be a misfit. I aspire to be a misfit.
-- Claire Danes

#Women #Lucky #Misfits

It's been a huge joy, this experience of being a mom ... I don't know how to articulate it yet, because it is so fresh.
-- Claire Danes

#Mom #Joy #Being A Mom

I don't think I have ever been as inspired by any character that I have played. I was deeply moved by Temple's courage and her resourcefulness.. She is really pioneering in both the world of autism and animal rights. She has encouraged an incredibly positive change in the world.
-- Claire Danes

#Character #Animal #Thinking

Growing up in New York with artist parents - a very liberal environment, where we were always encouraged to challenge the status quo - I think for a long time I confused jingoism with patriotism. And that is a mistake.
-- Claire Danes

#New York #Growing Up #Mistake

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

#Inspirational #Girl #Growing Up

Acting is a humiliating job, from start to finish.
-- Claire Danes

#Jobs #Acting #Humiliating

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.
-- Claire Danes

#Kids #Actors #Agents

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.
-- Claire Danes

#Summer #Yale #Acting

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

#Kids #Would Be #Done

I was a pretty nerdy kid. I was pretty nerdy. I'm still kind of nerdy. I have all of the worst qualities of being a nerd - all of the affect and none of the smarts. I'm a useless nerd! That's pretty bad.
-- Claire Danes

#Smart #Kids #Nerd

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

#July #Projects #Collapse

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.
-- Claire Danes

#Memories #Flags #Lines

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.
-- Claire Danes

#Choices #Taste #Mulligans

If I hadn't been an actress, I was thinking seriously about going into psychology. It's just really what I'm interested in: the human psyche and how we process information.
-- Claire Danes

#Thinking #Psychology #Information

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.
-- Claire Danes

#Careers #Roles #Auditions

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.
-- Claire Danes

#Autism #Brave #Misunderstood

In a way, that's really reassuring. I'm not just a very limited person to not have figured it out at this point. But it's also intimidating. Well, how long is it going to take before you can have a good time?
-- Claire Danes

#Long #Way #Good Times

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.
-- Claire Danes

#Choices #Acting #Sticks

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

#People #Curiosity #Actors

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

#Years #Midlife #Film

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.
-- Claire Danes

#Responsibility #College #Thinking

Anybody who knows how to make a good movie, knows that it's a collaborative undertaking. To deny that its really dangerous.
-- Claire Danes

#Good Movie #Deny #Dangerous

Well, it's true that you often kind of forget to see the person you're most intimate with, but occasionally I'll come to and sort of think, 'Oh my God! You're really, really good-looking! I'm embarrassed now! It's nice to occasionally have that flash.
-- Claire Danes

#Nice #Thinking #Kind

Relationships are a constant negotiation and balance.
-- Claire Danes

#Balance #Negotiation #Constant

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

#Kids #Imagination #Form

At every stage in life you think about death. But teenagers especially are sort of invincible. They're not supposed to be thinking about dying yet, or else they'd be too afraid to live.
-- Claire Danes

#Teenager #Thinking #Dying

Most people assume that autistic people are not capable of empathy.
-- Claire Danes

#People #Empathy #Assuming

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.
-- Claire Danes

#Cutting #College #Thinking

My character was kidnapped by the Terminator and I was kidnapped by the Terminator production.
-- Claire Danes

#Character

Tel Aviv is the most party time place in the world.
-- Claire Danes

#Party #Israel #World

It was a challenge for me to play somebody who was so quiet and receding and depressed because she's also on screen all the time, and she has to remain compelling and entertaining. I was really nervous that people were not going to stay with me while I was just staying behind that bloody counter.
-- Claire Danes

#Play #People #Challenges

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

#Thinking #Years #People

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

#Giving #Hatred #Energy

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

#Real #Connections #Lasting

It just seems like, you agree to have a certain personality or something. For no reason. Just to make things easier for everyone. But when you think about it, I mean, how do you know it's even you?
-- Claire Danes

#Mean #Thinking #Personality

There is real honor in being a total goofball
-- Claire Danes

#Real #Honor

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

#Broken Heart #Moving #Earthquakes

Money or no money, acting is my calling
-- Claire Danes

#Acting #Calling #No Money

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

#Growing Up #Understanding #Sound

My skin is a bit sensitive, so Cetaphil is my standby. I also use toner and a light layer of moisturizer—I use a lot of Kiehl's and other natural brands.
-- Claire Danes

#Light #Skins #Use

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

#Self #People #Judging

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.
-- Claire Danes

#Tired #Yale #Long