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" Voice over can be tricky. It can be dangerous because it's over-used or inappropriately used. "
Claire Danes
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" 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. "
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" 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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" I try to eat sensibly. I cheat, but for the most part, I eat in a clean way. "
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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 do know how to fire a machine gun, so be warned! I'm trained! "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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. "
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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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" I've never been interested or particularly good at censoring my experience. "
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Been
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" Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl. "
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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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Relationship
New
" I think it's important to never play 'crazy' - you have to know what kind of crazy you're playing. "
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Play
" 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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Experience
Kid
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" I fantasized about being a psychology major when I first started school, and I took a handful of Psych 101 classes. "
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Took
First
" I eat in moderation and try not to worry about it. "
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" It's a very young mistake to assume that life is very serious. I get the joke now. "
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Life
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" I think people who make movies and have invested a lot of money in them get frightened that if they challenge an audience they are going to repel them. And I think the opposite; it's really true. "
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Money
People
Think
" 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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Look
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" Every time I make a movie, I'm prepared for it to become influential and career-defining - but I have no control over these things. "
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Become
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" People confuse fame with validation or love. But fame is not the reward. The reward is getting fulfillment out of doing the thing you love. "
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" 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
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" Once you get over that peak of puberty, you hit a nice stride. "
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" I would rather not work than be a neurotic mess. "
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Rather
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" I am not a genius. But I am nerdy. "
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" I would not say that secret-keeping is one of my finer skills, actually. "
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" As a young performer, I didn't know that you can have a great time playing someone in terrible crisis. The more you know it's not real, the deeper you can go into it. And the easier it is to let it go when it's done. "
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