Pessimistic" is a word for "realistic" that optimists use to make themselves feel better (about thei...
CLAIRE Respecting the Second Amendment does not mean abandoning common sense. The right to own guns in this...
CLAIRE MCCASKILL Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found.
CLAIRE DANES I have no relationship to the French bourgeoisie. I don't like connecting with them.
CLAIRE DENIS When I was in England doing Romeo and Juliet as a child star, I was interviewed by the British press...
CLAIRE BLOOM The Brexit and Trump phenomena are informed by similar forces and social and economic movements. I t...
CLAIRE DANES The body needs food, warmth and water, but your heart needs more.
CLAIRE CAMERON Awards bolster your confidence in wonderful ways. But they aren't the world.
CLAIRE MESSUD I have plenty of vanity in my life. I want to look pretty in the world. But it can be this bottomles...
CLAIRE DANES Maman told me that every time you smile, a very tiny bit of the smile stays stuck to your face, so a...
CLAIRE KING If our education had included training to bear unpleasantness and to let the first shock pass until ...
CLAIRE WEEKS We think that - as kids, you know - that kids make up stories and live in a sort of fictional place,...
CLAIRE MESSUD I'm totally going through a rebel period right now. It's sort of waning, but ... ach, I'm allowed, r...
CLAIRE DANES When I was a single, working mom with a newborn, I learned just how vital it is to have comprehensiv...
CLAIRE MCCASKILL One of my most vivid memories of the mid-1950s is of crying into a washbasin full of soapy grey baby...
CLAIRE TOMALIN Well, I'm wrestling alligators.
CLAIRE MCCASKILL Everyone finds their own version of Charles Dickens. The child-victim, the irrepressibly ambitious y...
CLAIRE TOMALIN Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl.
CLAIRE DANES I went to a private arts school. We had to wear cloaks.
CLAIRE FORLANI My parents are Italian and British. They live in Berkeley now - we all moved there four years ago.
CLAIRE FORLANI When you work with Sir Anthony there are days when he will do a lot of takes if he's really enjo...
CLAIRE FORLANI The fact that people didn't know I was British did work for quite a while.
CLAIRE FORLANI Armani's clothes are beautiful and modern and I love him.
CLAIRE FORLANI The surest thing about me is that I will change my mind.
CLAIRE FORLANI But Basquiat is the first thing I've done that I'm really proud of.
CLAIRE FORLANI I was always ready to leave England for some absurd reason.
CLAIRE FORLANI I love accents.
CLAIRE FORLANI I'd be quite excited to play somebody British.
CLAIRE FORLANI I'm lucky I had parents willing to be open and believe that an 11-year-old might know what she w...
CLAIRE FORLANI The older I get, the more relaxed I am.
CLAIRE FORLANI When I was younger, I think I intimidated people much more because I was far more insecure.
CLAIRE FORLANI I look at smoking as a crutch, and as an actor I would like strip away as many crutches as possible.
CLAIRE FORLANI My accent depends on whom I'm around.
CLAIRE FORLANI I've just got a new house in Pacific Palisades. It's really cute.
CLAIRE FORLANI I was truly ignorant about art before the film.
CLAIRE FORLANI Sometimes I miss the spirit of London, but it's a very gray place.
CLAIRE FORLANI I'd come out to Los Angeles for a vacation to see a friend and just fell in love with it.
CLAIRE FORLANI After I saw the first thing I ever did, I got a migraine.
CLAIRE FORLANI Alright, so I'm a manic depressive. What do you want from me?
CLAIRE FORLANI I am an unpredictable journey.
CLAIRE FORLANI If I had a great body, I'd be naked all the time.
CLAIRE FORLANI Depression is close to me, but suicide hasn't been.
CLAIRE FORLANI The imaginary world has always been the most fun place for me to be.
CLAIRE FORLANI Growing up in New York with artist parents - a very liberal environment, where we were always encour...
CLAIRE DANES People with bipolar disorder have difficulty with boundaries.
CLAIRE DANES My go-to gifts are scarves from my friend Matin Maulawizada's nonprofit organization, Afghan Han...
CLAIRE DANES There's a higher form of happiness in commitment. I'm counting on it.
CLAIRE FORLANI In Kurosawa's films, the tragedy is that this strong man was crushed by corruption or mistrust a...
CLAIRE DENIS I took three years off. I differentiated myself from the industry. Found my identity - sort of... I ...
CLAIRE DANES I discovered Orson Welles in college; my freshman English professor screened 'Citizen Kane' ...
CLAIRE DANES How do you solve a mystery? How do you write a book? The techniques for starting both are surprising...
CLAIRE CAMERON I hate having to pose for photos. It's just so embarrassing. Everyone is expecting you to know w...
CLAIRE FOY I would get a lot of writing done if I lived in isolation in a cave under a swamp.
CLAIRE CAMERON I've got a really hard election. If you had a really hard election and it was after Labor Day wo...
CLAIRE MCCASKILL 'A Christmas Carol' has been described as the most perfect of Dickens's works and as a q...
CLAIRE TOMALIN An abiding preoccupation for me is how much of our lives are invisible and unknown by other people, ...
CLAIRE MESSUD When I was a kid, I was one of those really obnoxious 'oooh oooh' girls, with my hand up in ...
CLAIRE DANES I think because I am as earnest as I am, people were accepting of my evolving into a certified, legi...
CLAIRE DANES I want a tutor,” Layla said. “It would make doing homework so much easier.”
“Me too,”...
CLAIRE LAZEBNIK Why do we read biography? Why do we choose to write it? Because we are human beings, programmed to b...
CLAIRE TOMALIN I really have never been concerned about being beautiful on-screen. That's just not my jam.
CLAIRE DANES What I don't like so much is to give explanations about people's behaviour... I'm not in...
CLAIRE DENIS Most people assume that autistic people are not capable of empathy.
CLAIRE DANES I actually think in some ways that it might be more challenging to be bipolar because it's so me...
CLAIRE DANES Today's children have very short attention spans because they are being reared on dreadful telev...
CLAIRE TOMALIN I'm happier in my thirties. I feel clearer about who I am and less apologetic about it, and more...
CLAIRE DANES Skype is one of the world's greatest inventions. I use it almost daily to connect with the peopl...
CLAIRE HOLT I remember going to a son's friend's bar mitzvah, and the text that he chose to explicate wa...
CLAIRE MESSUD I never need to go far if I need a reminder of how important Medicare and Social Security are to Mis...
CLAIRE MCCASKILL When I was doing 'Beau Travail,' I listened a lot to Benjamin Britten.
CLAIRE DENIS The big question is always, 'Eyes or lips?' I tend to go with the eyes because I've got ...
CLAIRE DANES Would you shake hands with the monster that lives in your closet?
CLAIRE AMBER If plan A doesn't work, the alphabet has 25 more letters - 204 if you're in Japan.
CLAIRE COOK I've spent my life pursing excellence as an artist, which is what I always wanted to do anyhow.
CLAIRE BLOOM The thing I love about Rome is that is has so many layers. In it, you can follow anything that inter...
CLAIRE TOMALIN Along with my colleagues Mark Warner and Sheldon Whitehouse, I have been working to end the process ...
CLAIRE MCCASKILL While 'Visitation Street' has the markings of a traditional whodunnit mystery - starting wit...
CLAIRE CAMERON Carla had realised there wasn’t just one destined adventure in life, there were thousands of them.
CLAIRE CHILTON I was hiking a five-day loop - alone - in the Rocky Mountains when I rounded the switchback and saw ...
CLAIRE CAMERON 'Philomena' was even better than I had expected. I was so pleased to see the evil Irish nuns...
CLAIRE TOMALIN I've always had a really active imagination. Lots of kids have imaginary friends. Mine just took...
CLAIRE DANES I don't know how anyone can keep a straight face and say they are for deficit reduction while th...
CLAIRE MCCASKILL Place and displacement have always been central for me. A type of insecurity goes with that: you are...
CLAIRE MESSUD Making pizza is a great job. All that kneading the dough - everything to do with cooking is wonderfu...
CLAIRE DENIS I wouldn't have been able to go to drama school when I was 19. I don't think I was even cons...
CLAIRE FOY I actually did work and produced two short dissertations, one on Faulkner and one on the film critic...
CLAIRE MESSUD The Missourians I hear from just don't buy the idea that the only way to tackle the national deb...
CLAIRE MCCASKILL Writing with kids is an adventure. It seems like someone always has the flu or pink-eye. I mean, you...
CLAIRE MESSUD Every three seconds in the developing world, a child dies needlessly due to lack of basic health car...
CLAIRE DANES It just seems like the most successful, iconic love stories are not so easy or escapist. I think the...
CLAIRE DANES Growing up, I was obsessed with Leonardo DiCaprio.
CLAIRE FOY I was working at the 'Evening Standard' when I heard that there was a job going as deputy li...
CLAIRE TOMALIN I dream of wayward gulls and all landless lovers, rare moments of winter sun, peace, privacy, for ev...
WILLIAM CLAIRE I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs l...
CLAIRE SARGENT I think Jeremy wants things, and I think that's a great moment when (Mirabelle) says, 'You should ju...
CLAIRE DANES What a holler would ensue if people had to pay the minister as much to marry them as they have to pa...
CLAIRE TREVOR I am always so envious of people who do whatever they want.
CLAIRE FOY I've become completely obsessed with Netflix original programming. 'House of Cards' and ...
CLAIRE HOLT The airplane should have landed early this morning. I heard on the radio it had crashed. I don't und...
CLAIRE RENETTE Dickens belongs to the English people.
CLAIRE TOMALIN The feat of surviving is directly related to the capacity of the survivor.
CLAIRE CAMERON Often there are not enough adult bodies in a classroom, which boosts the stress level for everyone. ...
CLAIRE LERNER We shouldn't deny the right of the minority to filibuster, but we need to do a much better job o...
CLAIRE MCCASKILL Yeah, there was the Flora Plum thing, where I trained for about a month and I had taken a semester o...
CLAIRE DANES They have not been given a strong enough message about the health risks of oral sex.
CLAIRE BRINDIS We have a lot of unfinished business. There's so much we still want to do.
CLAIRE FAUCHER Harvey Pitt is doing a great job and he has an incredibly strong record in terms of enforcement,
CLAIRE BUCHAN If you do something that you're not genuinely passionate about, it is a little soul-crushing. Ju...
CLAIRE DANES I've always very earnestly tried to do my best, so I just have to trust that and forgive myself ...
CLAIRE DANES I think, whenever you're doing anything, you don't want anyone anywhere to watch it and thin...
CLAIRE FOY Bread, potatoes, rice and pasta are starchy carbohydrates, which should make up a third of your diet...
CLAIRE WILLIAMSON I didn't foresee my career. Things happen.
CLAIRE DENIS Counterterrorism isn't really about the nunchakus, the guns and gadgets. It's about psycholo...
CLAIRE DANES I think they're both inward-looking. That's the most obvious parallel between the two,
CLAIRE DANES I'm an illegal alien and have been for many years. If you rub my skin, I go green.
CLAIRE FORLANI Two non-governmental organization vehicles were reported stolen in the past four days and other part...
CLAIRE BOURGEOIS Kids are in a total vacuum. Teachers and staff are in a partial vacuum. None of the federal agencies...
CLAIRE BARNETT I think a film noir demands a beginning and an end.
CLAIRE DENIS I'm the only United States Senator in the country that I'm aware of that's had the far l...
CLAIRE MCCASKILL My mother's father was from Brazil - a painter, and not a famous one - and was always broke. But...
CLAIRE DENIS We wanted a delegation with diverse backgrounds to appeal to as many people here as possible.
CLAIRE HALPRINE Money is only irrelevant if you have it,
CLAIRE DANES I was haunted by a bear attack that happened in Algonquin Park in 1991. The problem was that I don&#...
CLAIRE CAMERON The cinema should be human and be part of people's lives; it should focus on ordinary existences...
CLAIRE DENIS We're reaching a whole new level pairing Fidelity Investments and Sir Paul McCartney.
CLAIRE HUANG I feel that I have an impractical and deleterious snobbery about the relation of literature to the m...
CLAIRE MESSUD If I hadn't been an actress, I was thinking seriously about going into psychology. It's just...
CLAIRE DANES Writing does not exist unless there is someone to read it, and each reader will take something diffe...
CLAIRE FULLER My character was kidnapped by the Terminator and I was kidnapped by the Terminator production.
CLAIRE DANES You become more tolerant when you become older. You're not interested in rapping people over the...
CLAIRE TOMALIN If you live in a family or have five roommates, there's some sort of reality check, but when you...
CLAIRE MESSUD There was a solid year and a half, perhaps two years, after making 'Temple Grandin,' when I ...
CLAIRE DANES Simon Russell Beale is an incomparable speaker of Shakespeare and a superb all-round actor.
CLAIRE TOMALIN With the royal family, you don't want to see them as people because it takes the sheen off. They...
CLAIRE FOY I believe that, in an ideal world, writers would feel free to write what matters to them without hav...
CLAIRE MESSUD He is part of a whole series of different things we're going to do at Fidelity.
CLAIRE HUANG I started in the mailroom, literally, as an intern... in 1974. The legislator I was working for at t...
CLAIRE MCCASKILL This measure is temporary. We have kept enough staff in field offices to continue delivering service...
CLAIRE BOURGEOIS I feel that when we look at what's going on in the world and fossil fuels and all the problems with ...
CLAIRE ROBY It's been a great privilege to see how interwoven nations are and how incredibly complex these r...
CLAIRE DANES I would like the UNCW Surf Club to be a place for all students no matter what ability to come togeth...
CLAIRE MAGEE During the warmer seasons we have weekly Surf Clinics that members can either surf or choose to just...
CLAIRE MAGEE She would've been huge (Thursday) night. We had our top go-to player go down and we're still playing...
CLAIRE FAUCHER I played a girl. There's really nothing controversial about her. She's just fine. She has to be fine...
CLAIRE DANES I think the challenge in transforming an industrial brand into a luxury brand should not be underest...
CLAIRE KENT But a group of toddlers making up a story together is a much richer learning experience than draggin...
CLAIRE LERNER The island is a one-stop shop for wilderness and outdoor adventure. You can get your feet dirty by d...
CLAIRE ELLIS When you have countries that have a lot of minerals and diamonds and oil and are in business with co...
CLAIRE DENIS The political system loves the extremes, it doesn't so much show a lot love for the moderates.
CLAIRE MCCASKILL I'm a moderate. I hang out in the middle. I vote against my party with some regularity and try t...
CLAIRE MCCASKILL We're all living in some state of illusion, even if modestly.
CLAIRE MESSUD Many of my favorite survivors in fiction show that it may not be the most muscled, macho or mighty p...
CLAIRE CAMERON I do know how to fire a machine gun, so be warned! I'm trained!
CLAIRE DANES I have to say that my dad's face is very malleable. He's barely got any cartilage in his fac...
CLAIRE DANES On her chart battle with other Steps member Faye: "This will be a case of may the best woman win - a...
CLAIRE RICHARDS I've never dated (casually). Ever. It's kind of weird. I did have a boyfriend in junior high who was...
CLAIRE DANES She came to my house one day and said, 'I'm taking you rowing. You don't need to see to row. Let's j...
CLAIRE GILBERT We will continue to work with Republicans and Democrats in Congress to enact a tax cut plan consiste...
CLAIRE BUCHAN Clearly the Democratic primaries have started early, and there appears to be a division within the p...
CLAIRE BUCHAN Women's anger is very scary to people, and to no one more than to other women, who think, 'M...
CLAIRE MESSUD Wow, we sure came out hard. We were so fired up for this game because we knew we couldn't lose it. W...
CLAIRE FAUCHER So,' he said. 'What do you think of it?'
She twisted towards the fire and watched the flames be...
CLAIRE MERLE I'm going to get out of here,' she said.
'That's the spirit.' Tamsin sighed, letting go of her ...
CLAIRE MERLE How can anyone prove they're not insane to people that are?
CLAIRE MERLE In 2007, several musicologists contacted me at about the same time, expressing interest in the work ...
CLAIRE TOMALIN Henry James and Edith Wharton are huge for me because they gave me a way to understand America while...
CLAIRE MESSUD My tendencies are much more the Henry James thing, where we sit in silence at the table for three mi...
CLAIRE MESSUD I started on a very high note and I was alwasy able to choose. I want to be able to do that until my...
CLAIRE BLOOM Once you get over that peak of puberty, you hit a nice stride.
CLAIRE DANES Being a new mother was a joyful and sometimes overwhelming experience - and as the first Missouri fe...
CLAIRE MCCASKILL It's not totally unexpected on the first day of a campaign like this,
CLAIRE HAJAJ Quality improvement has always been the right thing for hospitals to do. But it's also becoming a fi...
CLAIRE TURNER You go ahead and eat that if you want, but I don't think it's possible.......
E. CLAIRE One of the greatest gifts in life is giving time and giving love. It helps me to stay grateful and h...
CLAIRE HOLT Buying fruit or vegetables that are in season is cheaper, as is buying loose produce. Frozen peas co...
CLAIRE WILLIAMSON The food we eat can have a massive impact on how our mind and body functions. Eating healthily helps...
CLAIRE WILLIAMSON A healthy diet is based on breads, potatoes and cereals, is rich in fruit and vegetables, and includ...
CLAIRE WILLIAMSON The market for wedding dresses is more often than not led by emotion and aspiration rather than rati...
CLAIRE BIRKS believes like most Americans that human cloning is deeply concerning, and he strongly supports legis...
CLAIRE BUCHAN She's the oldest one, she's the most mature, she's the smartest. She's just Jessica, you know, J-Mac...
CLAIRE COGGINS You want a mutual fund investment to be a long-term investment and gain the advantage of compounding...
CLAIRE SAUNDERS Drug Court requires no plea to be made while undergoing the program, while diversion does, plus, Dru...
CLAIRE ESPINA All the partner-swapping and reversals are farcical and a little Shakespearean, ... I play the strai...
CLAIRE DANES I played a girl. There's really nothing controversial about her. She's just fine. She has to be fine...
CLAIRE DANES All I will say is that we work very well together.
CLAIRE DANES It was such a thrill to work with Jason. I want to do it many, many, many times again. He's so modes...
CLAIRE DANES I used to talk about my personal life all the time. It's the most fun thing to talk about, ... the p...
CLAIRE DANES Martin knew the story very well. He internalized it years ago when he wrote the novella,
CLAIRE DANES That's pretty easy for me to play, I guess.
CLAIRE DANES Terminator 3
CLAIRE DANES In a way, that's really reassuring. I'm not just a very limited person to not have figured it out at...
CLAIRE DANES I was dying to do that, to work with Jodie again.
CLAIRE DANES The real question that needs to be asked and answered is 'Why?' Why would any group of legislators w...
CLAIRE EBEL They think it's very feasible.
CLAIRE ROBY The government wants the international community to condemn Sudan and ... the refugees can be used a...
CLAIRE BOURGEOIS Unfortunately, it seems that I am eternally trapped in the dark realm of tangled ear-buds.
E. CLAIRE I am the eldest child; it's lonely at the top.
CLAIRE DENIS The world is filled with a bunch of cheaters and bad referees: Life isn't fair but almost nobody eve...
E. CLAIRE How To Kill the Job Culture Before It Kills You: Living a Life of Autonomy in a Wage-Slave Society ....
CLAIRE WOLFE To make it a top-down solution isn't the answer. There is this incredible sense of impatience and th...
CLAIRE RUBIN