Claire Danes Quotes

My brother and I had a really privileged relationship with my parents... They treated us like adults.

I speak with my father about everything in my life.

I have a very open line of communication with both my children.

Intimacy, as I am using it, is sharing my reality with you.

I mostly want to be friends with my children.

Be able to confide your innermost secrets to your mother and your innermost fears to your father.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

It is a parent's responsibility to preserve the connection with their children, to preserve the relationship, so that the children can let go and become their own selves.

My mother and I always had full adult communication.

What goes on between a father and a son, which is usually such a private matter, is that they are able to be honest with each other, and be honest with me, as a director. It's just remarkable.

When you're just shagging girls, you can talk about it, but once it gets real, then you don't.

Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It's the magic sauce.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

As part of my relationship with my wife and my daughter, and we share everything and talk about everything.

Luckily, my wife is amazing. She's one of the few people in my life I'm completely honest with. I've told her everything about my past. She knows me inside and out. There's no secrets at all.

Relationships in general make people a bit nervous. It's about trust. Do I trust you enough to go there?

I don't keep secrets from my parents, really; it's pretty open.

I've found that if I say what I'm really thinking and feeling, people are more likely to say what they really think and feel. The conversation becomes a real conversation.

I've always stayed really close with my mother and my father.

It's not the traditional promise ring. It's basically to always stay truthful. I think that's a really important part of a relationship, that you're always honest with each other.

The relationship between Cathy and Mom in the strip is the one relationship drawn from real life that I have proudly never even tried to disguise.

Communication is so much better when people are vulnerable.

When you're in a relationship, if you just break it down to regular terms, people are attracted to something, and that's what they want you to be, and that's what you should just be, and for me, it's very simple - if I meet a girl and I say, 'This is what I like about you. Just continue. Every day.'

As far as my involvement in the Bajaj family affairs is concerned, it is a friendly gesture.

There were no secrets in my house. I always knew what was going on.