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" I think you can become dependent on fame and be as known as you want to be, you know? "
Claire Danes
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" Working gives you this new perspective. You don't take everything too seriously, and you realise that if you don't do too well on a history test, it's not the end of the world. "
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" I do know how to fire a machine gun, so be warned! I'm trained! "
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" Relationships are a constant negotiation and balance. "
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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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" So much of my job is about finding another job, and that's really boring. "
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" Once you get over that peak of puberty, you hit a nice stride. "
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" It's funny with jeans now, because if they don't feel like a pair of sweatpants, I don't have patience for them anymore! I think I'm becoming increasingly lazy. "
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" When somebody asks me who I'm wearing, I always see myself with a BabyBjoern, carrying a little tiny Karl Lagerfeld, like, 'I'm wearing Chanel.' "
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" I've always very earnestly tried to do my best, so I just have to trust that and forgive myself for being fallible. "
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" We just can't shake monogamy. It definitely demands a kind of rigor and discipline and selflessness. But it's also fun. "
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" Most people assume that autistic people are not capable of empathy. "
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People
Assume
" I actually haven't been approached a whole lot for television, believe it or not. "
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Television
Lot
" Acting is a humiliating job, from start to finish. "
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Acting
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" Counterterrorism isn't really about the nunchakus, the guns and gadgets. It's about psychology. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Work
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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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My Life
Vanity
" 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. "
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Just
" Actors want to surprise themselves. When it's really good, you kind of transcend yourself, and that happens infrequently. Very, very rarely. "
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Kind
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Surprise
" 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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" My first offer was when I was 12, and it was for a soap opera. And I turned it down because I knew that I was an unformed actor, and I didn't want to develop bad habits. "
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" I still have a book club with my friends from when I was 5. That's the privilege of growing up in a place where people want to remain. It's a huge gift. "
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" 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. "
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Care