Claire Danes movie quotes

“Is this love, Tristan? I never imagined I'd know it for myself. My heart... it feels like my chest can barely contain it. Like it's trying to escape because it doesn't belong to me anymore. It belongs to you. And if you wanted it, I'd wish for nothing in exchange - no gifts. No goods. No demonstrations of devotion. Nothing but knowing you loved...” (continue)(continue reading)
Claire Danes - Yvaine

“And when I shall die, take him and cut him up in little stars, and he will make the face of heaven so fine that all the world will fall in love with night and pay no worship to the garish sun.”

Claire Danes - Juliet

“- Kate Brewster: So what's his story?
- John Connor: He's a robot from the future. Living tissue over a metal skeleton.”

Claire Danes - Kate Brewster
Nick Stahl - John Connor

- Yvaine: You know, it's funny. I used to watch... I used to watch people having adventures. I envied them.
- Tristan: You ever heard the expression "Be careful of what you wish for?".
Claire Danes - Yvaine
Charlie Cox - Tristan

“- Tristan: Don't you ever sleep?
- Yvaine: Not at night. May have escaped your notice, genius, but that's when the stars have rather better things to do. They're coming out, shining, that sort of thing.”
Charlie Cox - Tristan
Claire Danes - Yvaine

“If my brain wasn't on drugs right now, I could possibly kill someone.”
Claire Danes - Alice Marano

“You know when I said I knew little about love? That wasn't true. I know a lot about love. I've seen it, centuries and centuries of it, and it was the only thing that made watching your world bearable.”
Claire Danes - Yvaine

“I always hated you as Desdemona. You never fought! You just died, beautifully. No woman would die like that, no matter how much she loved him. A woman would fight!”
Claire Danes - Maria Hughes

“- San: Ashitaka, you mean so much to me, but I can't forgive the humans for what they've done.
- Ashitaka: I understand. You'll live in the forest, and I'll help rebuild Irontown.”
Claire Danes - San
Billy Crudup - Ashitaka

“- Captain Shakespeare: Your emotions give you away, Yvaine. You must learn to control them. You've been glowing more brightly every day and I think you know why.
- Yvaine: Of course I know why I'm glowing. I'm a star! And what the stars do best?”
Robert De Niro - Captain Shakespeare
Claire Danes - Yvaine

“- Sonja Jones: I'm one huge catalog of faults.
- Richard Samuels: Oh, name me one fault.
- Sonja Jones: My left breast is smaller than my right.
- Richard Samuels: You got a ruler?”
Claire Danes - Sonja Jones
Zac Efron - Richard Samuels

“- Moro: That boy wanted to share his life with you.
- San: I hate him! I hate all humans!”

Gillian Leigh Anderson - Moro
Claire Danes - San

“Everlasting life? I imagine it would be kind of lonely. Well, maybe if you had someone to share it with. Someone you loved. Then it might be different.”
Claire Danes - Tristan

“What do you know of love, sir? Or loyalty? Or adoration suffered in deepest silence? The only love you know, sir, is what you act on stage.”
Claire Danes - Maria Hughes

“My parents were two very idealistic, incredibly bright, narcissists. I was like their vanity project.”
Claire Danes - Sookie

“You know what I think when I'm this close to another body? I think one day at one moment... this body that I'm holding in my arms will stop breathing... stop living. Just... stop. One day you'll happen upon my name in the obits and you'll remember this moment when we were so close.”
Claire Danes - Sookie

“People with bipolar disorder have difficulty with boundaries.”
Claire Danes

“Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found.”
Claire Danes

“Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl.”
Claire Danes

“I'm not afraid to die. I'd do anything to get you humans out of my forest!”

Claire Danes - San

“If there's one thing I've learned about all my years watching Earth, is that people aren't what they may seem. There are shop boys, and there are boys who just happen to work in a shop for the time being.”
Claire Danes - Yvaine

“- Igby: It's incredible that a human being can make such neat, little joints.
- Sookie: You make it sound as if I'm anal or something, just because I know how to roll a perfect joint.”
Kieran Culkin - Igby
Claire Danes - Sookie

“No star can shine with a broken heart.”
Claire Danes - Yvaine

“I know that love is unconditional. But I also know that it can be unpredictable, unexpected, uncontrollable, unbearable and strangely easy to mistake for loathing.”
Claire Danes - Yvaine

“- San: Moro, please ask the Forest Spirit to save you!
- Moro: I have lived long enough, San. Soon, the Great Forest Spirit will let me rest forever.”
Claire Danes - San
Gillian Leigh Anderson - Moro