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" I eat in moderation and try not to worry about it. "
Claire Danes
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" 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. "
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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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" 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. "
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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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" I've never been interested or particularly good at censoring my experience. "
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" I have plenty of vanity in my life. I want to look pretty in the world. But it can be this bottomless pit. "
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" Voice over can be tricky. It can be dangerous because it's over-used or inappropriately used. "
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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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Nature
Myself
" Acting is a humiliating job, from start to finish. "
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Humiliating
Acting
Finish
" 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
Curiosity
" I'm very vain about my performance. I want to give as honest a performance as I can. But I'm not so worried about being regarded as beautiful when I'm playing a character. "
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" I would not say that secret-keeping is one of my finer skills, actually. "
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" I was a very confident child. I knew I wanted to be an actress from the age of 5. "
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Age
Confident
Child
" 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. "
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Two
Semester
" I think 'Breaking Bad' is incredible. "
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Incredible
Bad
Breaking
" I just want to be a sane person. I wanna be a person who has a life and who acts. "
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Just
" The first time I realised I was patriotic was after September 11th. "
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First
" 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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Identity
Myself
Responsibility
" 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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Travel
People
Places
" 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. "
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Empathy
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" Narciso Rodriguez was my first fashion big brother. He made my wedding dress, which was wonderful. "
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Wedding
Fashion
Dress
" 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. "
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" 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. "
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People
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" I've always had a really active imagination. Lots of kids have imaginary friends. Mine just took on a rather demonic form. "
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" It's been a great privilege to see how interwoven nations are and how incredibly complex these relationships are. It's so elaborate. "
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Privilege
" My character was kidnapped by the Terminator and I was kidnapped by the Terminator production. "
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Production
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" I think people are made uncomfortable by uncensored expressions of emotion. "
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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 do feel like I've gotten younger as I've aged. "
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Gotten
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