Claire Danes

You have to come to work from a place of love.

I love Berlin.

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

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.

I like marriage. I feel very secure. It helps when you are in love with the person you are married to.

I particularly love Israel. I've had fantastic experiences there.

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

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

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.

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.

I've never been interested or particularly good at censoring my experience.

I hadn't been free from adult responsibilities since I was 12, and I needed to experience that. I really needed to just be a kid again.