Claire Danes
Claire Danes
Claire Catherine Danes is an American actress who first came to prominence with her role as Angela Chase in the 1994 series My So-Called Life. The role won her the first of four Golden Globe Awards. She made her film debut the same year in Little Women. Her other films include Romeo + Juliet, The Rainmaker, Les Misérables, Brokedown Palace, Igby Goes Down, The Hours, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Shopgirland Stardust...
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth12 April 1979
CityNew York City, NY
Claire Danes quotes about
dying work
I was dying to do that, to work with Jodie again.
period rebel sort totally
I'm totally going through a rebel period right now. It's sort of waning, but ... ach, I'm allowed, right? It's OK, right?
irrelevant money
Money is only irrelevant if you have it,
associated enormous felt forever gift given hated ironic powerful taking time
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.
beginning believing desire familiar great jeremy moment sets sort sudden wants
I think Jeremy wants things, and I think that's a great moment when (Mirabelle) says, 'You should just do it,' ... I think she just harnesses it or funnels it into some sort of point, and all of a sudden he has a goal. But I think at the beginning it's just a frustration and a desire to do things, but he doesn't really know how to do them, and that's what sets him off on believing you can make the things that you don't see happen. I think he has ambition; I don't think he's familiar with how that feels.
follows life quite rules
She makes her own rules, ... She's consistent, and she follows those rules about life and work. And she's quite cheeky.
kissing somebody steve supposed weird
It's just as weird doing it with Steve as it is doing it with somebody my own age. You're not supposed to be kissing somebody who's not your boyfriend. You're just not. I don't know when I'll become more comfortable with it. You have to depersonalize it.
knew martin wrote
Martin knew the story very well. He internalized it years ago when he wrote the novella,
discover dreamed problems realize therapist until useful
You don't realize how useful a therapist is until you see yourself one and discover you have more problems than you ever dreamed of.
expression autism doe
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.
falling-in-love real fall
I love love and falling in love, but it can get pretty flat real fast.
helping married feels
I like marriage. I feel very secure. It helps when you are in love with the person you are married to.
want actors kind
Actors want to surprise themselves. When it's really good, you kind of transcend yourself, and that happens infrequently. Very, very rarely.
summer yale acting
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.