Claire Quotes

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

The imaginary world has always been the most fun place for me to be.

I think I would make a lousy stay-at-home mom. It just wouldn't suit me.

"Knowledge will bring you the opportunity to make a difference"

Strength is not born from strength. Strength can be born only from weakness. So be glad of your weaknesses now, they are the beginnings of your strength.

Yeah, there was the Flora Plum thing, where I trained for about a month and I had taken a semester off for that, and two weeks prior to filming, the financing collapsed.

If plan A doesn't work, the alphabet has 25 more letters - 204 if you're in Japan.

I got lost in him, and it was the kind of lost that's exactly like being found.

Autism does exist on a spectrum, and there are so many manifestations of it, so many kinds of expressions of it. And every case is particular.

In any of the arts, you never stop learning.

I think a lot of our team commitment is a silent understanding that each one of us has poured our life into what we're doing.

Valuing time with your family does not mean you've lost your ambition. Define success for yourself.

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

Above all, in my anger, I was sad. Isn't that always the way, that at the heart of the fire is a frozen kernel of sorrow that the fire is trying -- valiantly, fruitlessly -- to eradicate.

The most amazing thing I've ever seen was Jay Johnstone, in uniform, in line at a concession stand in Dodger Stadium after the game had already started.

I'm a moderate. I hang out in the middle. I vote against my party with some regularity and try to compromise. It doesn't appear right now that the Republican Party is welcoming moderates any more.

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

I've discovered over the years that the simplest explanation is almost always the right one; and that hunger of one kind or another - desire, by another name - is the source of almost every sorrow.

That's so her. You know, torn between Big Ideas and a party. She's always been that way.

No one's family is normal. Normalcy is a lie invented by advertising agencies to make the rest of us feel inferior.

Show me how you dance and I will know where you are from.

After I saw the first thing I ever did, I got a migraine.

To my mind, Guernica is the most important online intellectual and literary journal in America today.

Sometimes people say that kids with autism aren't capable of love. That's ridiculous. My son loves deeply. He's just doesn't communicate well.

It's funny with jeans now, because if they don't feel like a pair of sweatpants, I don't have patience for them anymore! I think I'm becoming increasingly lazy.

Geniuses have the shortest biographies.

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

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.

Every guy seems nice until he’s not.

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.

When only cops have guns, it's called a "police state".

I don't trust a government I can't shoot back at

The ideal citizen of a tyrannical state is the man or woman who bows in silent obedience in exchange for the status of a well-cared-for herd animal. Thinking people become the tyrants' worst enemies.

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

[Hillary Clinton] and I are fine. Are we going to be besties for the rest of our lives? No.

Time flies. Time flies faster every year. Time flies whether you're having fun or not, whether you're living your life big or small, whether you surround yourself with fear or laughter.

America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.

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

When the Tea Party comes to town, compromise goes out the door.

And I did a movie called Basil with Jared Leto and Christian Slater.

Find as many opportunities as you can and clock as many hours as you can.

What I needed was a connection to life that was real and lasting.

I am an unpredictable journey.

When I was younger, I think I intimidated people much more because I was far more insecure.

I'd be a whale shark. I'd like to be the biggest. The winner. Size is always important.

But I know how this romantic stuff works: one girl's perfect guy is another girl's reject. And right now I'm glad of it.

Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl.

The way I see it there are two types of people. Those stupid enough to get ripped off by people selling ringtones and those sensible enough to set up ringtone selling services.

The older I get, the more relaxed I am.

Filmmaking is to me very similar to being in a café somewhere in Paris and looking at the people walking by.