Claire Danes Quotes
"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
(Related: Experience)
"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."
- Claire Danes
(Related: Imagination, Being)
"What I needed was a connection to life that was real and lasting."
- Claire Danes
(Related: Life, Connection)
"My character was kidnapped by the Terminator and I was kidnapped by the Terminator production."
- Claire Danes
(Related: Character, Production)
"Fame doesn't end loneliness."
- Claire Danes
(Related: End, Fame, Loneliness)
"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."
- Claire Danes
(Related: Business, Home, Work, Boyfriend)
"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
(Related: Habit, Values, Actor, Being, Sound, Understanding, Want)
"I know, it's true. I've played these tortured teenagers. I can't wait to shed that image."
- Claire Danes
(Related: Teenagers)
"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."
- Claire Danes
(Related: Power, Age, Idea, Successful, Focus)
"Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl."
- Claire Danes
(Related: Growing up)
"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."
- Claire Danes
(Related: Love, People, Will)
"Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found."
- Claire Danes
(Related: Acting, Loneliness)
"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
(Related: Career, Celebrity)
"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."
- Claire Danes
(Related: Problems)
"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
(Related: People, Actor, Being, Curiosity, Press)
"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
"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
(Related: Work, Actor, Being, College, Identity, Responsibility, Years)
"I really liked Yale, although it was extremely intimidating. When I visited the campus, I was hiding behind trees, I felt so unworthy."
- Claire Danes
(Related: Trees, Unworthy)
"You know, let a few years go by until I hit my midlife crisis. Then that can be documented on film."
- Claire Danes
(Related: Crisis, Film, Years)
"I'm only realizing now that I was a child actress because I always took myself so seriously."
- Claire Danes
(Related: Now)
"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
(Related: July, Projects)
"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
(Related: People, Years)
"Maybe philosophy - I love talking about ideas. Or maybe art history. I was thinking about psychology, then I got really afraid because everybody says it's terribly boring."
- Claire Danes
(Related: Art, Love, History, Ideas, Philosophy, Psychology, Talking, Thinking)
"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."
- Claire Danes
(Related: Day, Identity, Years)