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" I'm only realizing now that I was a child actress because I always took myself so seriously. "
Claire Danes
Myself
Always
Seriously
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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'm so impressed by Jennifer Lawrence and Carey Mulligan. They have this exquisite taste. They are very gifted in their ability to make great choices. "
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" I think you can become dependent on fame and be as known as you want to be, you know? "
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" Acting is a humiliating job, from start to finish. "
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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 guess I stopped acting when I was 18 and didn't pick it up again until I was 21. That wasn't the plan, though. When I first started at Yale, the plan was to do a movie each summer. "
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" I should be so lucky to be a misfit. I aspire to be a misfit. "
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" 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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" I'm exceptionally open with my own parents, and they're exceptionally open with me. "
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" I like marriage. I feel very secure. It helps when you are in love with the person you are married to. "
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" Some of my happiest moments have been dancing. "
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" Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found. "
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" I'm just always learning lines. I've learned to flag the really crucial scenes, and I start figuring them out and committing them to memory as soon as I get them. "
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Start
Flag
" The first time I realised I was patriotic was after September 11th. "
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First
" 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. "
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Thinking
Love
Ideas
" 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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" 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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" I discovered Christopher Isherwood in college. His writing style is so direct, warm, and inclusive. "
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Style
Writing
Warm
" 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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Good
Surprise
" In New York City, everybody goes into therapy. "
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New
New York
Therapy
" 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. "
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Identity
Myself
Day
" 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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Trust
Myself
" My goal is always to do something that feels just beyond my reach, and 'Homeland' continues to do that. Every season, they find new ways to scare me. The show is like a diamond that fell from the sky. I'll always feel slightly bludgeoned by it, but in the best way possible. "
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Sky
" I started working when I was very young. I got an agent when I was 12, and fortunately was employed consistently from that point on. So I didn't really go to a conventional high school. I was tutored on sets and things. "
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Young
High School
" My parents never condescended to me. As a child, I always sat at the head of our dinner table. I was always given a lot of responsibility. "
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Dinner
Parents
" 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. "
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Years
Hand
" 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. "
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Imagination
" I was very driven to act from a very young age, and my parents were not only tolerant of that drive but also encouraging. "
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Know