Claire Quotes

The feat of surviving is directly related to the capacity of the survivor.

I don't think actresses' lives in general are very good

I've spent my life pursuing excellence as an artist, which is what I always wanted to do anyhow.

I remember seeing some little wrinkles in my early 30s and thinking they were interesting. But you know the horror of it is that the screen image has to be perfect

There are several paths one can take, but not every path is open to you.

I know stealing a foot is weird. But, hello, living in a house where a foot is available to be stolen is weird.

Maybe part of find what you wanted was recognizing what you didn't want. Maybe there was hope for me yet.

I'd spent so many years doing things I didn't really want to do for people I didn't really like.

Maybe if the right person floats into your life, you have to jump in with both feet and try to make it work before the tide turns.

Sometimes love is a wound that opens and closes, opens and closes, all our lives.

Key Largo... I could have stayed on that picture for the rest of my life. I adored it.

I don't know what they call Hollywood anymore. The whole meaning of the town has changed.

Don't fall in love with your leading man. Of course, that's just what I did.

Having talent isn't merely about being competent; confidence is actually a part of that talent.

We read to find life, in all its possibilities.

Well, Im wrestling alligators.

..."And then we played Ping-Pong—” “Not pool? I always assumed he was a billiards man—I mean, it’s so handy the way he keeps a stick up his—

I've seen 'Pride and Prejudice' about 4,000 times. I'm not joking: I know every single line.

Sometimes I miss the spirit of London, but it's a very gray place.

I don't think I make genre movies. There is a certain type of violence in my films but I think I have my own genre because I made it happen like that.

Freedom is not having a big budget.

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.

I really have never been concerned about being beautiful on-screen. That's just not my jam.

Relationships are a constant negotiation and balance.

Relationships, the ones that last anyway, are really an extended game of Let's Make A Deal .

I would get a lot of writing done if I lived in isolation in a cave under a swamp.

I was haunted by a bear attack that happened in Algonquin Park in 1991. The problem was that I dont believe in ghosts, so that ruled out an exorcism. My other choice was to start writing.

You can't pretend to be a Sharon Stone or a Marilyn Monroe. You really can't fake that.

In my book, I was trying to get into my own soul.

Hope for the best, survive the worst, find humor wherever you can.

I've always had a really active imagination. Lots of kids have imaginary friends. Mine just took on a rather demonic form.

The key to a good relationship is the key. Give me back the key.

A promise unkept will take a man's mind.

Yes, writing is essential to me. It's my way of living in the world.

I wanted to write a voice that for me, as a reader, had been missing from the chorus: the voice of an angry woman.

I was funny -- ha-ha, not peculiar. It was a modest currency, like pennies: pedestrian, somewhat laborious, but a currency nonetheless. I was funny, in public, most often at my own expense.

I'm hesitant to judge people. My favorite saying is "you do you." But, hopefully, you don't have to seek external validation from others to feel good about yourself.

Depression is close to me, but suicide hasn't been.

I'm lucky I had parents willing to be open and believe that an 11-year-old might know what she wanted to do. Or maybe they thought I'd find out that's what I didn't want to do.

The best patients are the worst patients. Nudge, nudge, nudge. Don't sit back and accept anything that fails to satisfy you. Speak up, protect your interests.

I have this book club, and we don't read one book; we offer up a few suggestions and create a library over time.

What are sisters for if not to point out the things the rest of the world is too polite to mention.

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

This was not a fearie tale. This was not the movies. This was life. It hurt more. It was excruciating. It was excruciatingly beautiful.

Happiness is a strange thing. It is something I tend to recognize only after it has passed, when I realize I miss it.

I am in a spot where I can neither be what I always am nor turn into what I could be.

My heart feels not so much in my chest as in my hands. I am carrying it along swiftly, as though I have become the messenger for what is going on inside me.

Nothing is quite as depressing as depression.

I was a lot braver when I was eight.

I've always very earnestly tried to do my best, so I just have to trust that and forgive myself for being fallible.