Claire Danes Quotes

When I was little, I used to have nightmares about Godzilla walking out of the Great South Bay, because we had a fire alarm out where we lived that sounded just like his feet.

As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula.

I don't know any kid that's not afraid at some point going to bed with the lights off, totally. That's why they make nightlights.

I was a bit of a coward when I was small. I was terribly frightened of the dark.

My father Bill had a problem with Christmas. Although he appears in old photographs to possess a whippy, muscular frame, he was actually a frail man and usually managed to cause some kind of drama just before the festivities began.

When I was a kid, I used to be afraid of the dark. I would stand at my door, turn the light off and dive into bed.

My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas.

I am actually a big sissy, and growing up, I never used to watch horror movies. 'Bambi' gave me nightmares.

I grew up asking for everything under the sun for Christmas, but I knew I wasn't going to get it all.

Most childhoods are full of anxiety, but that tends to get smoothed over, so you have a sense of nostalgia.

I remember as a little kid, I would always feel comfortable if the light in the crack of my parents' door was on at night. When it went off, that meant they were asleep. Then that terror and the fear of being by myself started to creep in.

I remember as a kid being really scared of the Smurfs.

I get very unsettled by the mess of Christmas. I find the decorations a little bit hard, as my desire for everything to match is never fully satisfied.

I never saw a department store Santa as a kid. My mother was afraid to take me.

When I was a kid, I really wanted a metal detector for Christmas, convinced I was going to find buried treasure and could retire at 12. Santa Claus brought me one, but sadly, that treasure was never realized. It's amazing how many bottle caps you have to dig up. But to be honest, that dream is still alive.

I think that most of the monsters I dream of, I dreamt of as a child.

I was scared of the devil starting around age nine. Before that, I was gathering every family member in the living room, slipping a shirt over my robe so the bottom hung like a skirt and performing Gloria Estefan songs with feverish intensity.

When I was a child, I always went to my grandmother's house in Nuremberg for Christmas. My uncle would leave the room, saying he needed the toilet, and then he would reappear dressed as Santa Claus. I was really scared - I'd have to go and hide behind an armchair.

When I was 11, I was terrified about the world.

I couldn't watch '101 Dalmatians' when I was, like, nine because Cruella was too scary.

Christmas Day itself hasn't always been great. My parents went abroad when I was very young, and I went to boarding school. We had a few Christmases before that - I remember a big sack of presents and Mummy cooking goose.

I remember as a kid being scared of the things that go bump in the night, but I was way more scared of adults.

I grew up with three little brothers. Every Christmas, we'd have piles of toy trucks and Lincoln Logs and G.I. Joes under the tree. Those were for them. For me? My No. 1 favorite present of all time: books. Two or three tall stacks of wonderful stories that I could lose myself in for weeks.

As a kid, I had nightmares about Freddy Krueger just from the trailers on TV!

When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come.