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Money or no money, acting is my calling.

Claire Danes

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Claire Danes
Age: 45
Born: 1979
Born: April 12
Actor
Actress
Film Actor
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Manhattan borough
New York City
Claire Catherine Danes
Calling
Acting
Money

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By the time I went to Yale, I'd been acting for a long time and I was really tired of it. I was restless - and a little bored - and I was really eager to investigate different parts of myself.
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My character was kidnapped by the Terminator and I was kidnapped by the Terminator production.
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People in the CIA, they marry each other. They're like actors! We have to travel without much warning to far-flung places, and it's very hard to communicate what our experiences are like to those in the outside world.
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I discovered Christopher Isherwood in college. His writing style is so direct, warm, and inclusive.
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I think the voice over actually enhances the various moments instead of compensating for something that's lacking. Voice over can be tricky. It can be dangerous because its over used or inappropriately used. I think in this case it informs the story.
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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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I fantasized about being a psychology major when I first started school, and I took a handful of Psych 101 classes.
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Tel Aviv is the most party time place in the world.
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I love love and falling in love, but it can get pretty flat real fast.
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I took three years off. I differentiated myself from the industry. Found my identity - sort of... I haven't graduated yet. I'm not legitimately educated yet, but maybe one day.
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Steve Martin is one of my favorite performers, writers, artists of all time.
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It just seems like the most successful, iconic love stories are not so easy or escapist. I think the ones that stay with us and resonate are full of conflict, discord and misunderstandings 'cause that's what makes drama happen or tension even if it's a comedy.
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There was a solid year and a half, perhaps two years, after making 'Temple Grandin,' when I didn't do anything. I just didn't have much patience for roles that were silly, or light, or inconsequential.
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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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I used to have nightmares when I was a little kid that I woke up prematurely and opened all the Christmas presents. And then I would be so relieved when I woke up and I realized that I hadn't done it.
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Counterterrorism isn't really about the nunchakus, the guns and gadgets. It's about psychology.
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However, I'm at a very comfortable place in my career and celebrity, in that I don't have to audition as extensively as I used to for roles but yet I'm not immediately recognizable.
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I'm just a big old nerd.
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My husband and I have watched a lot of Hitchcock movies in bulk, and there's a lot to be gained from that, from focusing strictly on an artists canon.
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