Claire Danes is an American actress, best known for playing ‘Angela Chase’ in the television show ‘My So-Called Life’ (1994). She has also starred in several films, such as ‘Little Women’ (1994), ‘Romeo+ Juliet’ (1996), ‘The Rainmaker’ (1997), ‘The Hours’ (2002), ‘Stardust’ (2007), and ‘A Kid Like Jake’ (2018). She is a three-time ‘Emmy Award’ winner. She has won four ‘Golden Globe Awards’ and two ‘Screen Actors Guild Awards’ as well. She received a star on the ‘Hollywood Walk of Fame’ in 2015. Danes is a feminist, and stands up for women rights. She is also an active supporter of charities such as ‘Afghan Hands’ and ‘Donorchoose.org.’ We have curated some of Claire Danes' quotes on acting, women, love, health, passion, and relationships.
I'm very vain about my performance. I want to give as honest a performance as I can. But I'm not so worried about being regarded as beautiful when I'm playing a character.
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.
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.
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.
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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I was a pretty nerdy kid. I was pretty nerdy. I'm still kind of nerdy. I have all of the worst qualities of being a nerd - all of the affect and none of the smarts. I'm a useless nerd! That's pretty bad.
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Television lets audiences deeply connect with characters.
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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 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 don't know any celebrated people that register in a big way who aren't unique.
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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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By the time I went to Yale, I'd been acting for a long time and I was really tired of it. I was restless - and a little bored - and I was really eager to investigate different parts of myself.
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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I was a very confident child. I knew I wanted to be an actress from the age of 5.
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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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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.
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.
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.
I actually haven't been approached a whole lot for television, believe it or not.
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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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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.
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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I am not a genius. But I am nerdy.
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I think I would make a lousy stay-at-home mom. It just wouldn't suit me.
I can get a dance party started pretty much anywhere and anytime.
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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.
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Most people assume that autistic people are not capable of empathy.
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I should be so lucky to be a misfit. I aspire to be a misfit.
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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.
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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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.
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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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.
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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.
I know, it's true. I've played these tortured teenagers. I can't wait to shed that image.
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I really liked Yale, although it was extremely intimidating. When I visited the campus, I was hiding behind trees, I felt so unworthy.
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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.
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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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'm only realizing now that I was a child actress because I always took myself so seriously.
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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.
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.
Oh, I'm full of fear. I care about things; therefore, I have fears. I like to think that I'm brave, which is different. Brave means you're able to admit that you care. If you care, you are vulnerable.
