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" 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. "

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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. "

Claire Danes

Kid

You

Seriously

" 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. "

" I think 'Breaking Bad' is incredible. "

" I eat in moderation and try not to worry about it. "

" I wouldn't say that I'm a naturally political beast. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Psychology and acting are very closely linked. It's just about studying people and how they work. It can be an incredible discipline and exercise. "

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

" On a film you can really get away with learning the scene the night before and that's often just not possible with TV, so you have to be a little bit more prepared a little bit more in advance. "

" Steve Martin is one of my favorite performers, writers, artists of all time. "

" I have to say that my dad's face is very malleable. He's barely got any cartilage in his face. I think I maybe inherited that Play-Doh-like physicality from him. "

" I particularly love Israel. I've had fantastic experiences there. "

" 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. "

" You have to pick your battles on set. "

" 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. "

" Once you get over that peak of puberty, you hit a nice stride. "

" I would rather not work than be a neurotic mess. "

" I think I would make a lousy stay-at-home mom. It just wouldn't suit me. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm only realizing now that I was a child actress because I always took myself so seriously. "

" I would be a terrible CIA officer in real life. "

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

" 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. "

Claire Danes

Work

Home

" When I was a kid, I was one of those really obnoxious 'oooh oooh' girls, with my hand up in the air constantly. I've learned over the years that that's not so attractive, so I've censored that. "

" 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. "

" I am not a genius. But I am nerdy. "

Claire Danes

Nerdy

I Am

" We just can't shake monogamy. It definitely demands a kind of rigor and discipline and selflessness. But it's also fun. "