“I would be a terrible CIA officer in real life.” — Claire Danes Quote

I would be a terrible CIA officer in real life.

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.

When somebody asks me who I'm wearing, I always see myself with a BabyBjoern, carrying a little tiny Karl Lagerfeld, like, 'I'm wearing Chanel.'

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.

I know CIA like the back of my hand.

When I became director of CIA, it was just clear to me intuitively, without a whole lot of science behind it, that we had expanded rapidly and inefficiently. So I arbitrarily picked a number, 10 percent, and I said over the next 12 months, we are going to reduce our reliance on contractors by 10 percent.

There is no worse place for an intelligence service like CIA to be than on Page 1, above the fold in your daily newspaper.

I would not restart, under any circumstances, an interrogation program at CIA.

Throughout my career, I had the great fortune to experience firsthand as well as to witness what it means to be a CIA officer.