Claire Danes quotes Golden Globe win for ABC series ABC series My So-Called Life (1993-95) Born: 04/12/1979 Country: usa

• I have a huge, active imagination, [and] I think I'm really scared of being alone; because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman. (Claire Danes) [imagination/think/being]
• “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.” (Claire Danes) [more]
• Money is only irrelevant if you have it (Claire Danes) [money]
• The life of my persona has nothing to do with me. (Claire Danes) [life]
• 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. (Claire Danes) [art]
• 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. (Claire Danes) [time/being/words]
• The age difference seemed a little awkward, ... but the movie is about that. (Claire Danes) [age/difference/awkward/movie]
• All the partner-swapping and reversals are farcical and a little Shakespearean, ... I play the straight man while everyone else is so eccentric. (Claire Danes)
• 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. (Claire Danes) [age/power]
• I think they're both inward-looking. That's the most obvious parallel between the two. (Claire Danes) [think]
• That's pretty easy for me to play, I guess. (Claire Danes)
• 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. (Claire Danes) [weird/age/kissing/more]
• Terminator 3 (Claire Danes)
• I was really tired of that, so this opportunity landed on my lap. I was cast literally the day before I started working (Claire Danes) [day]
• “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?” (Claire Danes) [point/take]
• “He's an incredibly dynamic person. I don't know if the general public is so conscious of that. He's a skillful, celebrated writer. He also collects art in earnest, and he's also an incredible musician. You should hear him play the ukulele. It's ridiculous what he's capable of.” (Claire Danes) [art]
• “I was dying to do that, to work with Jodie again.” (Claire Danes)
• “With acting there are a lot more choices, ... With this, I either stick it or I don't. There's something really unforgiving about that.” (Claire Danes) [more]
• “I really appreciate her focus and discipline, ... This industry is very powerful and overwhelming and intimidating. She knows it and has created her own culture within it. And that integrity. She's got it.” (Claire Danes) [discipline/culture/integrity]
• “She makes her own rules, ... She's consistent, and she follows those rules about life and work. And she's quite cheeky.” (Claire Danes) [life]
• “All I will say is that we work very well together.” (Claire Danes) [willpower]
• “They look really beautiful,” (Claire Danes) [look]
• “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.” (Claire Danes) [moment/choice]
• “It was a challenge for me to play somebody who was so quiet and receding and depressed because she's also on screen all the time, and she has to remain compelling and entertaining. I was really nervous that people were not going to stay with me while I was just staying behind that bloody counter.” (Claire Danes) [time/people]
• “I used to talk about my personal life all the time. It's the most fun thing to talk about, ... the people in my life are hurt.” (Claire Danes) [life/time/thing/people]
• “I've never dated (casually). Ever. It's kind of weird. I did have a boyfriend in junior high who was a kleptomaniac. We'd leave stores and he'd come out with something for me.” (Claire Danes) [weird/high]
• “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?” (Claire Danes) [right]
• “This is Steve's personal story -- it's based on his actual relationship, ... We both have kind of slight frames, and I have dark hair in the movie like hers.” (Claire Danes) [movie]
• “Martin knew the story very well. He internalized it years ago when he wrote the novella,” (Claire Danes)
• “It was uncomfortable, I have to say, but I did think that it was relevant and useful, ... Also, it's erotic. There's no reason to pussyfoot around that. I thought it was vital, so I stripped.” (Claire Danes) [think/erotic]
• “I played a girl. There's really nothing controversial about her. She's just fine. She has to be fine in order to make Sarah Jessica's character pop, ... I say I just play a white girl in that movie.” (Claire Danes) [order/character]

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