My first offer was when I was 12, and it was for a soap opera. And I turned it down because I knew that I was an unformed actor, and I didn't want to develop bad habits.
From Claire Danes
If I hadn't been an actress, I was thinking seriously about going into psychology. It's just really what I'm interested in: the human psyche and how we process information.
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.
You know, let a few years go by until I hit my midlife crisis. Then that can be documented on film.
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.
What I needed was a connection to life that was real and lasting.
There's certainly something very uncomfortable about the voyeurism involved in being in the press, being an actor, where people have a seemingly insatiable curiosity about, you.
My character was kidnapped by the Terminator and I was kidnapped by the Terminator production.
Maybe philosophy - I love talking about ideas. Or maybe art history. I was thinking about psychology, then I got really afraid because everybody says it's terribly boring.
I'm only realizing now that I was a child actress because I always took myself so seriously.
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