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All Quotes by author - Claire Danes

" Acting is a humiliating job, from start to finish. "

" Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found. "

" Actors want to surprise themselves. When it's really good, you kind of transcend yourself, and that happens infrequently. Very, very rarely. "

" Any story is better with a little love in it, right? "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" College was just so essential for my sense of self and my development. "

" Counterterrorism isn't really about the nunchakus, the guns and gadgets. It's about psychology. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Fame doesn't end loneliness. "

" Germany's fascinating. It's a really rich landscape to film and dramatise. "

" Growing up in New York City, I was always encouraged to question authority, and I think I confused patriotism with jingoism. "

" 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. "

" Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl. "

" 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 actually haven't been approached a whole lot for television, believe it or not. "

" I actually think in some ways that it might be more challenging to be bipolar because it's so mercurial - it's so ever-changing. You can't get any traction. You can't build on a system. Whereas, somebody who has Asperger's, which is certainly a much more forgiving expression of autism, can create models for coping and build on them over time. "

" I am a feminist. "

" 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 can get a dance party started pretty much anywhere and anytime. "

" I care about being formally physically attractive in my life, and I think that I am quite vain about my performance. I'm just not vain about how I look while I give the performance. "

" I could truly have gone through life thinking that women were these venomous creatures. Turns out, they're not. "

" I discovered Christopher Isherwood in college. His writing style is so direct, warm, and inclusive. "

" 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 do feel like I've gotten younger as I've aged. "

" I do know how to fire a machine gun, so be warned! I'm trained! "

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