Claire Danes

Fame doesn't end loneliness.

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.

I think because I am as earnest as I am, people were accepting of my evolving into a certified, legitimate, and grown up and I did take three years off.

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.

I fantasized about being a psychology major when I first started school, and I took a handful of Psych 101 classes.

In New York City, everybody goes into therapy.

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.

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.

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

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.

It's been a great privilege to see how interwoven nations are and how incredibly complex these relationships are. It's so elaborate.

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.