267 Quotes by Claire Danes

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.

All the partner-swapping and reversals are farcical and a little Shakespearean, ... I play the straight man while everyone else is so eccentric.

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.

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.

Fame doesn't end loneliness.

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.

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.

Oliver Stone's strategy is to unnerve the actors so as to make them alert and alive.

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.