Claire Quotes

I enjoyed the whole process of learning and was always happy when autumn came and school or college started up again.

I believe that sexual assault - if this is possible - was even more underreported when I was in school.

I guess I stopped acting when I was 18 and didn't pick it up again until I was 21. That wasn't the plan, though. When I first started at Yale, the plan was to do a movie each summer.

I discovered Orson Welles in college; my freshman English professor screened 'Citizen Kane' for us, and I wound up writing a 20-page term paper on it.

However, I'm at a very comfortable place in my career and celebrity, in that I don't have to audition as extensively as I used to for roles but yet I'm not immediately recognizable.

By the time I went to Yale, I'd been acting for a long time and I was really tired of it. I was restless - and a little bored - and I was really eager to investigate different parts of myself.

I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior.

I am not a genius. But I am nerdy.

I can get a dance party started pretty much anywhere and anytime.

College was just so essential for my sense of self and my development.

I always say to my students, if you can do anything other than writing and be happy, then you should.

I'm just always learning lines. I've learned to flag the really crucial scenes, and I start figuring them out and committing them to memory as soon as I get them.

I've always felt that if a project seems easy, or even attainable, why pursue it? I'll always find the hardest path.

I measure my life out in books." "You should be measuring your life by living. Correction: you shouldn't be measuring your life. What's the point?

Actors want to surprise themselves. When it's really good, you kind of transcend yourself, and that happens infrequently. Very, very rarely.

I discovered Christopher Isherwood in college. His writing style is so direct, warm, and inclusive.

If you’re reading to find friends, you’re in deep trouble.

Maybe that, really, is as good a definition as any of an artist in the world: a ruthless person.

With acting there are a lot more choices, With this, I either stick it or I don't. There's something really unforgiving about that.

I used to talk about my personal life all the time. It's the most fun thing to talk about, the people in my life are hurt.

As my wise friend Didi has more than once observed about life's passages, every departure entails an arrival elsewhere, every arrival implies a departure from afar.

I know, it's true. I've played these tortured teenagers. I can't wait to shed that image.

But we're lost in a world of appearances now.

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

I don't know any celebrated people that register in a big way who aren't unique.

The first time I realised I was patriotic was after September 11th.

I think it distinguishes television from every other medium. It's what makes it kind of radical, and risky, and fun.

I love love and falling in love, but it can get pretty flat real fast.

My husband and I have watched a lot of Hitchcock movies in bulk, and there's a lot to be gained from that, from focusing strictly on an artists canon.

It's my job to find the cornel of truth and then exaggerate, exaggerate, exaggerate until it's of an appropriate scale.

The patchwork nature of the forms are a reflection of sexuality itself.

The book Love and Trouble is asserting that sexuality lives inside us, and in the culture, and in the people who do things to us - and the forms reflect that.

Your sexuality belongs to you, and think about your own desire.

I believe that, in an ideal world, writers would feel free to write what matters to them without having to consider success, failure, the market, etc.

Does Being Happy simply Create More Time, in the way that Being Sad, as we all know, slows time and thickens it, like cornstarch in a sauce?).

An abiding preoccupation for me is how much of our lives are invisible and unknown by other people like the Chekhov story The Lady With the Little Dog.

Start with scout locations first.

If I had to summarize, most broadly, my concerns as a writer, I'd say the question 'How then must we live?' is at the heart of it, for me.

I’m not a writing group member, not a joiner in that way. I don’t seek a wide swath of feedback.

The more accurately one can illuminate a particular human experience, the better the work of art.

The surest thing about me is that I will change my mind.

I'd come out to Los Angeles for a vacation to see a friend and just fell in love with it.

I'm an illegal alien and have been for many years. If you rub my skin, I go green.

Juliana's a year older than me, but she sometimes seems younger - mostly because she's the opposite of cynical and I'm the opposite of the opposite of cynical.

Mitch McConnell is a professional arm twister. He's done this for many years. He has a lot of power in his caucus.

It's very hard from a distance to figure out who has lost their minds. One party, the other party, all of us, the president.

Man, I hated not being able to figure someone out. And from the slightly uncertain look he gave me as we all went to class, I suspected he felt the same way.

I cursed myself not only for forgetting to turn my phone off but for ever thinking that having a rock music ringtone was cool.

He can’t ground her if he’s already killed her,” I pointed out when Juliana quoted this to me. “Well, he can, but it wouldn’t have the same impact.

I was isolated but not ostracized, ignored but not abused.