Claire Danes Quotes

The thing is, I don't just take roles because they're performance capture.

Every actress has a line she'll draw, where she'll say, 'This I will do and this I won't.' For me, everything has to be important to the story and the director has to be able to tell me why.

I think I really would have quit if I hadn't gotten 'Inherent Vice'. Or maybe I would have just shriveled up and died.

I don't want to shoot myself in the foot when it comes to getting work. But I'm just not as interested in most of the films that are made in the States. The characters aren't as compelling. The stories aren't as substantial.

I could have signed 10 films after 'Jai Ho,' but those films would have done nothing for me. I wanted to wait for the right project.

I will not accept a role just because a big hero stars in it. I am not here to merely dance, run around trees, and be a glam doll.

I didn't want to get typecast doing an item number in 'Corporate,' so I didn't do it then.

Every few years when it's been another five years that have passed and I haven't made a film and the depression starts taking over totally, I allow myself to do a commercial. And then I feel really dirty and get to work promptly.

I'm trying not to go through that midlife dip that artists tend to have.

The first thing I look at with a project isn't who's directing, whether it's a big film; it's the character and whether I want to tell her story.

I don't want to just do any acting role that comes just for the sake of getting in a film.

I want to act in films such as 'My Left Foot' and 'A Beautiful Mind.'

It would be prudish to say, 'I don't want to be a prop in a film,' because there are certain films I've loved doing, as I have looked very glamorous in them.

I don't want to do just anything on screen and get frustrated watching myself in a film.

Many number of times I say no when a producer or a director asks me to do a cop's role, unless the film is very interesting.

I have worked with big actors, but honestly, I don't judge the viability of a project on the basis of the star value attached to it.

After acting in a critically acclaimed film like 'Kaaka Muttai,' I didn't get any offers for more than a year.

When it comes to art in general now, we've become so aware of our influence. We know when people are listening, when people are watching. It's not healthy. We start creating with that in the background of our mind. I think it's ruined my mind.

I think you need to be very careful of getting 'stuck' in musical theatre.

I have no qualms about doing any kind of role as long as it is substantial.

You will never see me dancing around the trees, chasing a heroine; I will never do films, no matter what the budget, for the heck of it.

I am tired of starring in those films where I am being a part just for the sake of it.

I don't design stories to fit some political ideology. I design stories about characters who I love and care about, while trying to make sense of an increasingly mad and toxic and insane world.

I've turned down a few roles because I couldn't see myself in them.

I like to work with people who want to make films because they are passionate about films and not because they want to sell films and make money. I am not for people who get the most saleable actor and then the most saleable director and sell the film.