Claire Danes

I have plenty of vanity in my life. I want to look pretty in the world. But it can be this bottomless pit. ”

I just want to be a sane person. I wanna be a person who has a life and who acts. ”

It's a very young mistake to assume that life is very serious. I get the joke now. ”

I would be a terrible CIA officer in real life. ”

What I needed was a connection to life that was real and lasting. ”

It's funny with jeans now, because if they don't feel like a pair of sweatpants, I don't have patience for them anymore! I think I'm becoming increasingly lazy. ”

I got an agent when I was 12, and I started working in more amateur productions well before that. But even as a kid, I never felt like a kid actor, you know? I always took myself kind of absurdly seriously. ”

I exercise more for mental relaxation than anything else. ”

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. ”

I could truly have gone through life thinking that women were these venomous creatures. Turns out, they're not. ”