267 Quotes by Claire Danes

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.

Anybody who knows how to make a good movie, knows that it’s a collaborative undertaking. To deny that its really dangerous.

I have this book club, and we don’t read one book; we offer up a few suggestions and create a library over time.

It’s my job to find the cornel of truth and then exaggerate, exaggerate, exaggerate until it’s of an appropriate scale.

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.

In a way, that’s really reassuring. I’m not just a very limited person to not have figured it out at this point. But it’s also intimidating. Well, how long is it going to take before you can have a good time?

Actors want to surprise themselves. When it’s really good, you kind of transcend yourself, and that happens infrequently. Very, very rarely.

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.

I could truly have gone through life thinking that women were these venomous creatures. Turns out, they’re not.