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Claire Danes

"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."

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"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."

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"Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found."
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"I really liked Yale, although it was extremely intimidating. When I visited the campus, I was hiding behind trees, I felt so unworthy."
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"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."
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"When I was 18 I went to college for two years and didn't work for a year which was essential for me, because my identity had been so influenced by my being an actor and I think I just needed to discover what it was to be myself, divorced from all that responsibility."
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"I'm only realizing now that I was a child actress because I always took myself so seriously."
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"I finally realized that yeah I did want to be an actor and it wasn't out of habit, but I needed to grow up for myself and then kind of re-enter the industry with a sound understanding of what my sensibilities and my values are as a relatively formed human being."
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"Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl."
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"What I needed was a connection to life that was real and lasting."
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"You know, let a few years go by until I hit my midlife crisis. Then that can be documented on film."
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"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."
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