Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" I've always very earnestly tried to do my best, so I just have to trust that and forgive myself for being fallible. "
Claire Danes
Best
Trust
Myself
Related Quotes:
" There was a solid year and a half, perhaps two years, after making 'Temple Grandin,' when I didn't do anything. I just didn't have much patience for roles that were silly, or light, or inconsequential. "
Claire Danes
Light
Silly
Year
" 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. "
Claire Danes
Working
Young
High School
" 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. "
Claire Danes
Over
Years
Hand
" I do feel like I've gotten younger as I've aged. "
Claire Danes
Younger
Gotten
Feel
" 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. "
Claire Danes
Career
Place
Comfortable
" I actually haven't been approached a whole lot for television, believe it or not. "
Claire Danes
Whole
Television
Lot
" 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. "
Claire Danes
Know
Jealous
Girl
" I have plenty of vanity in my life. I want to look pretty in the world. But it can be this bottomless pit. "
Claire Danes
Look
My Life
Vanity
" 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
" I was a very confident child. I knew I wanted to be an actress from the age of 5. "
Claire Danes
Age
Confident
Child
" Television lets audiences deeply connect with characters. "
Claire Danes
Deeply
Connect
Characters
" 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. "
Claire Danes
Think
Being Alone
Imagination
" My character was kidnapped by the Terminator and I was kidnapped by the Terminator production. "
Claire Danes
Kidnapped
Production
Character
" I eat in moderation and try not to worry about it. "
Claire Danes
Try
About
Eat
" I exercise more for mental relaxation than anything else. "
Claire Danes
Anything
Than
Mental
" So much of my job is about finding another job, and that's really boring. "
Claire Danes
Really
Much
Job
" 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. "
Claire Danes
Uncomfortable
People
Curiosity
" I was an actor who happened to be a kid. "
Claire Danes
Happened
Kid
Who
" I don't want to be an actress. I want to be doing good work that is well written and has good people in it. "
Claire Danes
People
Good Work
Good
" My go-to gifts are scarves from my friend Matin Maulawizada's nonprofit organization, Afghan Hands, which supports disenfranchised women in Afghanistan. In exchange for their beautiful embroidery, the women are given financial aid and classes in math and literacy. The scarves are all stunning and one of a kind. "
Claire Danes
Women
Friend
Financial
" 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. "
Claire Danes
Look
I Am
Care
" People talk about 'date night,' and it is true: Sometimes you have to apply yourself, or at least apply lipstick to yourself. You kind of have to dress up, just because. You know, wear heels to your own dinner table. "
Claire Danes
Dress
Yourself
People
" I could truly have gone through life thinking that women were these venomous creatures. Turns out, they're not. "
Claire Danes
Gone
Women
Through
" I was very driven to act from a very young age, and my parents were not only tolerant of that drive but also encouraging. "
Claire Danes
Young
Driven
Drive
" 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. "
Claire Danes
Learning
Film
Possible
" 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. "
Claire Danes
Age
Opportunities
Focus
" If you do something that you're not genuinely passionate about, it is a little soul-crushing. Just not worth it. "
Claire Danes
Worth It
You
Little
" The Brexit and Trump phenomena are informed by similar forces and social and economic movements. I think it's been really stressful; it's been really scary. "
Claire Danes
Social
Think
Informed
" I like marriage. I feel very secure. It helps when you are in love with the person you are married to. "
Claire Danes
You
Marriage
Love
" I think because I am as earnest as I am, people were accepting of my evolving into a certified, legitimate, and grown up and I did take three years off. "
Claire Danes
Years
People
Think