Claire Danes Quotes

If I could give my teenaged self any advice, it would be 'Calm down!'

Each day, as you get older, there is a new perspective on life. It's a progression of some sort.

If I have known much trouble in my youth, I have also known much joy.

My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.

After spending 460 days as a hostage, I did emerge a fundamentally changed person. But I think, like everyone does as they grow older and probably wiser, I can look back at my earlier life - my history, my mistakes, the joy I felt as a young woman traveling the world - with some objectivity and even some humor.

A little perspective, like a little humor, goes a long way.

You can't get mad at weather because weather's not about you. Apply that lesson to most other aspects of life.

It is a challenge at times, but trying to stay centered and balanced helps me keep things in perspective.

Oh my gosh, I'd give so much advice to a younger version of myself. I would say it really does get better as you get older. The things that mean so much, the things that seem like, you know, it's going to cause the end of the world, are all things that I've already forgotten.

Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.

Life experiences can, at times, be quite humbling, but you learn from them. But I like the changes in my life and what kind of person they've made me into. I'm very open, not as judgmental as I was in my twenties, and a lot more compassionate.

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

I believe all positive things and negative things are valuable because they shape you.

Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least get out of the way so you won't get run over.

Petty things don't bother me as much as they used to.

There's always something going on, but thank goodness these days it's with a clear head, which helps me massively.

When you realize that life isn't fair, you don't act out, you don't get overly wasted, you don't get self-indulgent. You just move forward.

You don't realize it till you get older as an actor, but all the parts you've gotten have led you up to today - good, bad, and otherwise.

I'm really thankful for every experience I've had, even the ones that were puzzling or disorienting, because they taught me so much.

You can't ask someone to act middle-aged. Someone has to bring their own fatigue to it.

It's a very young mistake to assume that life is very serious. I get the joke now.

I'm personally in a different stage of my career than I was at the beginning. I was young and tried to run a lot and fight for things. Now it falls naturally. That's something you get with experience.

When I come home from work, if I just played a really good game and I'm on top of the world, I think changing a diaper will humble me pretty quickly. On days when I struggle, I'll come home and I'll realize that it's not the end of the world.

I played with Eddy Curry twice and in New York, the second time, he asked, 'Who are you?' My first to fourth year I was a different person. I started thinking big picture, that maybe I don't have all the answers.

Cricket was a splendid chapter of my life; indeed, it made me what I am today. However, cricket alone isn't the only flavour of life. Sometimes, indeed, we tend to take sports too seriously and life too casually.