A biography for Claire Daneshasn’t been written yet.
“It's a very young mistake to assume that life is very serious. I get the joke now.”
“Oh, I'm full of fear. I care about things; therefore, I have fears. I like to think that I'm brave, which is different. Brave means you're able to admit that you care. If you care, you are vulnerable.”
“I just want to be a sane person. I wanna be a person who has a life and who acts.”
“I do know how to fire a machine gun, so be warned! I'm trained!”
“It's been a great privilege to see how interwoven nations are and how incredibly complex these relationships are. It's so elaborate.”
“Germany's fascinating. It's a really rich landscape to film and dramatise.”
“I wouldn't say that I'm a naturally political beast.”
“I fantasized about being a psychology major when I first started school, and I took a handful of Psych 101 classes.”
“Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl.”
“I actually haven't been approached a whole lot for television, believe it or not.”
“I have this book club, and we don't read one book; we offer up a few suggestions and create a library over time.”
“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.”
“I would not say that secret-keeping is one of my finer skills, actually.”
“Acting is a humiliating job, from start to finish.”
“You know, let a few years go by until I hit my midlife crisis. Then that can be documented on film.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Maybe philosophy - I love talking about ideas. Or maybe art history. I was thinking about psychology, then I got really afraid because everybody says it's terribly boring.”
“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.”
“Growing up in New York City, I was always encouraged to question authority, and I think I confused patriotism with jingoism.”