Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found.
But I don't know if people are meant to be together. You have to have a lot in common, choose well and be really fortunate. It's not like you're sprinkled with fairy dust. You have to believe that love will be there when you need it.
Fame doesn't end loneliness.
Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl.
However, I'm at a very comfortable place in my career and celebrity, in that I don't have to audition as extensively as I used to for roles but yet I'm not immediately recognizable.
I became very successful at a young age... I had lots of opportunities and lots of power and had no idea how to focus it.
I did Little Women, when I was a very little woman myself. But America's history is not as impressive as your own.
I don't need to be exposed to people's opinion of me; it just makes me too nervous.
I feel like I'm turning into more of a woman - I'm getting ready to leave home, go to college, be independent. It's an exhilarating time.
I finally realized that yeah I did want to be an actor and it wasn't out of habit, but I needed to grow up for myself and then kind of re-enter the industry with a sound understanding of what my sensibilities and my values are as a relatively formed human being.
I get a little jealous of these actor boys. They walk into a club, and in two seconds flat there are swarms of girls who are wanting so badly to touch them or just say hello. That's not the case with me, or any other girl I know.
I hadn't been free from adult responsibilities since I was 12, and I needed to experience that. I really needed to just be a kid again.
I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I'm really scared of being alone; because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman.
I have this home in New York, I have a long-term relationship with my boyfriend, who's from Australia, and I had this business that I had maintain. Even though I wasn't actively shooting, there's a lot of peripheral work.
I haven't been threatened in the way that has crippled me, emotionally or physically.
I know, it's true. I've played these tortured teenagers. I can't wait to shed that image.
I really liked Yale, although it was extremely intimidating. When I visited the campus, I was hiding behind trees, I felt so unworthy.
I think anybody who knows how to make a good movie knows that it's a collaborative undertaking. To deny that is really dangerous.
I think because I am as earnest as I am, people were accepting of my evolving into a certified, legitimate, and grown up and I did take three years off.
I took three years off. I differentiated myself from the industry. Found my identity - sort of... I haven't graduated yet. I'm not legitimately educated yet, but maybe one day.
I wanted acceptance. I still do.
I would sign on for projects that were meant to shoot in July, and then they would postponed and they would bleed into the following semester, and then I'd take a semester off, and then the movie would collapse.
I'm only realizing now that I was a child actress because I always took myself so seriously.
It seems like the most successful, iconic love stories are not so easy or escapist.
It was interesting because I was very representative of teenagers, especially with My So-Called Life and Romeo and Juliet, so I was like a teenager in an abstract and literal sense, which was a bit peculiar, but I couldn't dwell on that as it would drive me pretty insane.
Maybe philosophy - I love talking about ideas. Or maybe art history. I was thinking about psychology, then I got really afraid because everybody says it's terribly boring.
My character was kidnapped by the Terminator and I was kidnapped by the Terminator production.
There's certainly something very uncomfortable about the voyeurism involved in being in the press, being an actor, where people have a seemingly insatiable curiosity about, you.
Three years had passed since I had acted, and I missed it. I missed it terribly.
What I needed was a connection to life that was real and lasting.
When I was 18 I went to college for two years and didn't work for a year which was essential for me, because my identity had been so influenced by my being an actor and I think I just needed to discover what it was to be myself, divorced from all that responsibility.
Yeah, there was the Flora Plum thing, where I trained for about a month and I had taken a semester off for that, and two weeks prior to filming, the financing collapsed.
You don't realize how useful a therapist is until you see yourself on e and discover you have more problems than you ever dreamed of.
You know, let a few years go by until I hit my midlife crisis. Then that can be documented on film.
Claire choreographed her own solo dance in the Off Broadway play Kids On Stage.
Claire dated Australian singer Ben Lee for six years, they split in 2003.
Claire won a Blockbuster Entertainment Award in 1997 for 'Favorite Actress' for her role as Juliet in Romeo + Juliet.
Claire appeared in the Soul Asylum video 'Just Like Anyone'.
Claire studied acting at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute in New York City.
Claire attended the Professional Performing Arts High, in New York City.
Claire was named one of People magazine's 'Most Beautiful People in the World' in 1997.
Claire's favorite movies are: Fargo, Footloose, and The Breakfast Club.
Claire's interests include: modern dance, surfing, gymnastics, and psychology.
Claire's salary for The Mod Squad was $2,000,000 in 1999.
Playbill reports that Claire will take on a rare stage role Star Off-Broadway in Christina Olson: American Model, a dance work by Tamar Rogoff which will debut at P.S. 122 Sept. 22-Oct. 2
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