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Claire Danes
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Claire Danes
Age: 45
Born: 1979
Born: April 12
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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.
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Well, it's true that you often kind of forget to see the person you're most intimate with, but occasionally I'll come to and sort of think, 'Oh my God! You're really, really good-looking! I'm embarrassed now! It's nice to occasionally have that flash.
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I'm only realizing now that I was a child actress because I always took myself so seriously.
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The big question is always, 'Eyes or lips?' I tend to go with the eyes because I've got a lot more material to work with now - and it saves me from reapplying lipstick! I'm a pretty low-maintenance person and it's too excessive to exaggerate both the eyes and lips.
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I really have never been concerned about being beautiful on-screen. That's just not my jam.
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I actually haven't been approached a whole lot for television, believe it or not.
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I've always very earnestly tried to do my best, so I just have to trust that and forgive myself for being fallible.
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