Top 100 Claire Danes Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Tel Aviv is the most party time place in the world.”

— Claire Danes

2. “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

3. “Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found.”

— Claire Danes

4. “I’m just a big old nerd.”

— Claire Danes

5. “It’s my job to find the cornel of truth and then exaggerate, exaggerate, exaggerate until it’s of an appropriate scale.”

— Claire Danes

6. “You have to stay hydrated when you have crying scenes.”

— Claire Danes

7. “People with bipolar disorder have difficulty with boundaries.”

— Claire Danes

8. “I can get a dance party started pretty much anywhere and anytime.”

— Claire Danes

9. “I have this book club, and we don’t read one book; we offer up a few suggestions and create a library over time.”

— Claire Danes

10. “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

11. “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

12. “I do know how to fire a machine gun, so be warned! I’m trained!”

— Claire Danes

13. “I am not a genius. But I am nerdy.”

— Claire Danes

14. “Find as many opportunities as you can and clock as many hours as you can.”

— Claire Danes

15. “If I hadn’t been an actress, I was thinking seriously about going into psychology. It’s just really what I’m interested in: the human psyche and how we process information.”

— Claire Danes

16. “If you do something that you’re not genuinely passionate about, it is a little soul-crushing. Just not worth it.”

— Claire Danes

17. “Any story is better with a little love in it, right?”

— Claire Danes

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18. “Television lets audiences deeply connect with characters.”

— Claire Danes

19. “I really have never been concerned about being beautiful on-screen. That’s just not my jam.”

— Claire Danes

20. “You are the most brave intrepid person I have ever known, and you have dedicated your life to helping those who are misunderstood and underrepresented.”

— Claire Danes

21. “Relationships are a constant negotiation and balance.”

— Claire Danes

22. “At every stage in life you think about death. But teenagers especially are sort of invincible. They’re not supposed to be thinking about dying yet, or else they’d be too afraid to live.”

— Claire Danes

23. “Growing up in New York City, I was always encouraged to question authority, and I think I confused patriotism with jingoism.”

— Claire Danes

24. “My skin is a bit sensitive, so Cetaphil is my standby. I also use toner and a light layer of moisturizer – I use a lot of Kiehl’s and other natural brands.”

— Claire Danes

25. “I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior.”

— Claire Danes

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26. “Most people assume that autistic people are not capable of empathy.”

— Claire Danes

27. “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

28. “But I don’t know if people are meant to be together. You have to have a lot in common, choose well and be really fortunate. It’s not like you’re sprinkled with fairy dust. You have to believe that love will be there when you need it.”

— Claire Danes

29. “There is real honor in being a total goofball.”

— Claire Danes

30. “I get a little jealous of these actor boys. They walk into a club, and in two seconds flat there are swarms of girls who are wanting so badly to touch them or just say hello. That’s not the case with me, or any other girl I know.”

— Claire Danes

31. “Money or no money, acting is my calling.”

— Claire Danes

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

— Claire Danes

33. “Growing up in New York with artist parents – a very liberal environment, where we were always encouraged to challenge the status quo – I think for a long time I confused jingoism with patriotism. And that is a mistake.”

— Claire Danes

34. “I’m so impressed by Jennifer Lawrence and Carey Mulligan. They have this exquisite taste. They are very gifted in their ability to make great choices.”

— Claire Danes

35. “It just seems like, you agree to have a certain personality or something. For no reason. Just to make things easier for everyone. But when you think about it, I mean, how do you know it’s even you?”

— Claire Danes

36. “Fame doesn’t end loneliness.”

— Claire Danes

37. “I started working when I was very young. I got an agent when I was 12, and fortunately was employed consistently from that point on. So I didn’t really go to a conventional high school. I was tutored on sets and things.”

— Claire Danes

38. “Huge events take place on this earth every day. Earthquakes, hurricanes, even glaciers move. So why couldn’t he just look at me?”

— Claire Danes

39. “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

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40. “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

41. “I should be so lucky to be a misfit. I aspire to be a misfit.”

— Claire Danes

42. “My character was kidnapped by the Terminator and I was kidnapped by the Terminator production.”

— Claire Danes

43. “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

44. “Steve Martin is one of my favorite performers, writers, artists of all time.”

— Claire Danes

45. “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.”

— Claire Danes

46. “I have to say that my dad’s face is very malleable. He’s barely got any cartilage in his face. I think I maybe inherited that Play-Doh-like physicality from him.”

— Claire Danes

47. “Hatred can become like food, it gives you this energy that you can, like, live off...”

— Claire Danes

48. “I know, it’s true. I’ve played these tortured teenagers. I can’t wait to shed that image.”

— Claire Danes

49. “I’m just always learning lines. I’ve learned to flag the really crucial scenes, and I start figuring them out and committing them to memory as soon as I get them.”

— Claire Danes

50. “There’s certainly something very uncomfortable about the voyeurism involved in being in the press, being an actor, where people have a seemingly insatiable curiosity about, you.”

— Claire Danes