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You have to pick your battles on set.

Claire Danes

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Television lets audiences deeply connect with characters.

Claire Danes

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I am not a genius. But I am nerdy.

Claire Danes

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Most people assume that autistic people are not capable of empathy.

Claire Danes

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Any story is better with a little love in it, right?

Claire Danes

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My character was kidnapped by the Terminator and I was kidnapped by the Terminator production.

Claire Danes

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I should be so lucky to be a misfit. I aspire to be a misfit.

Claire Danes

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In New York City, everybody goes into therapy.

Claire Danes

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Counterterrorism isn't really about the nunchakus, the guns and gadgets. It's about psychology.

Claire Danes

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Once you get over that peak of puberty, you hit a nice stride.

Claire Danes

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Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl.

Claire Danes

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Narciso Rodriguez was my first fashion big brother. He made my wedding dress, which was wonderful.

Claire Danes

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Actors want to surprise themselves. When it's really good, you kind of transcend yourself, and that happens infrequently. Very, very rarely.

Claire Danes

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I love sitting in the makeup trailer and getting my makeup done in 15 minutes as opposed to an hour and a half.

Claire Danes

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People confuse fame with validation or love. But fame is not the reward. The reward is getting fulfillment out of doing the thing you love.

Claire Danes

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Psychology and acting are very closely linked. It's just about studying people and how they work. It can be an incredible discipline and exercise.

Claire Danes

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You don't realize how useful a therapist is until you see yourself on e and discover you have more problems than you ever dreamed of.

Claire Danes

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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

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My parents never condescended to me. As a child, I always sat at the head of our dinner table. I was always given a lot of responsibility.

Claire Danes

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It's very difficult to judge yourself. Extreme self-doubt is only attractive when it's fictionalized. Which is why people love the movies. They are so reassuring.

Claire Danes

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Every three seconds in the developing world, a child dies needlessly due to lack of basic health care and other things we all take for granted.

Claire Danes

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If I took my characters home with me, half of my life would be a misery, I think. No, I tend to compartmentalize work from my life. I'm not terribly method.

Claire Danes

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Yeah, there was the Flora Plum thing, where I trained for about a month and I had taken a semester off for that, and two weeks prior to filming, the financing collapsed.

Claire Danes

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My first offer was when I was 12, and it was for a soap opera. And I turned it down because I knew that I was an unformed actor, and I didn't want to develop bad habits.

Claire Danes

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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.

Claire Danes

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I care about being formally physically attractive in my life, and I think that I am quite vain about my performance. I'm just not vain about how I look while I give the performance.

Claire Danes

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I have this home in New York, I have a long-term relationship with my boyfriend, who's from Australia, and I had this business that I had maintain. Even though I wasn't actively shooting, there's a lot of peripheral work.

Claire Danes

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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.

Claire Danes

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When I was 18 I went to college for two years and didn't work for a year which was essential for me, because my identity had been so influenced by my being an actor and I think I just needed to discover what it was to be myself, divorced from all that responsibility.

Claire Danes

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