267 Quotes by Claire Danes
"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."
"It was such a thrill to work with Jason. I want to do it many, many, many times again. He's so modest and silly. I was just following him. We always talk about how it's so important to be in the moment, and I just feel like I didn't have a choice because what he was doing was so compelling and surprising. He kept me really engaged."
"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."
"It's not easy. Many, many, many songs have been written about it. We wouldn't have anything to read if relationships were easy. There would be no art in the world if we actually got along."
"Voice over can be tricky. It can be dangerous because it's over-used or inappropriately used."
"It's so ironic that I'll forever be associated with that time because I hated being a teenager, ... I felt under siege. It was an enormous gift to be given those insightful, powerful words. I felt I was taking a megaphone and roaring, 'It's awful.' It was very cathartic."