Claire Forlani's BIO Her role in 'Meet Joe Black' (1988)
July 1, 1972 (Twickenham, Middlesex, England, UK)
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  • Alan and I play this despicable couple, and whenever anything goes wrong, we just smoke more cigarettes and take more coke.
  • The imaginary world has always been the most fun place for me to be.
  • I very much remember my teens as being big highs and big lows. It was a hormonally up-and-down experience.
  • I am an unpredictable journey.
  • Commitment? It's a terrifying thing! Ay-ay-ay! But I truly believe in it.
  • I've just got a new house in Pacific Palisades. It's really cute.
  • I was truly ignorant about art before the film.
  • Alright, so I'm a manic depressive. What do you want from me?
  • There's a higher form of happiness in commitment. I'm counting on it.
  • I play Hopkins' daughter. Brad Pitt plays Death. He's a very-good looking Death. With him, dying isn't so bad.
  • I went to a private arts school. We had to wear cloaks.
  • The fact that people didn't know I was British did work for quite a while.
  • I look at smoking as a crutch, and as an actor I would like strip away as many crutches as possible.
  • I love the educated actors. There's always something to talk about or listen to.
  • I'm an illegal alien and have been for many years. If you rub my skin, I go green.
  • And I did a movie called Basil with Jared Leto and Christian Slater.
  • I just finished Meet Joe Black with Hopkins.
  • I'd come out to Los Angeles for a vacation to see a friend and just fell in love with it.
  • I'm personally not comfortable taking anything off and we'd been filming for five months already when we did that scene.
  • I had my mouth hanging open for almost a year and a half as I watched my mother be absolutely hysterical, sing and be dramatic.
  • When you work with Sir Anthony there are days when he will do a lot of takes if he's really enjoying a scene.
  • My accent depends on whom I'm around.
  • When I was younger, I think I intimidated people much more because I was far more insecure.
  • It was so strange that my mother got very sick when I got the film. So I had the dual experience happening, the personal one and the work one.
  • I just love men.
  • After I saw the first thing I ever did, I got a migraine.
  • I'm lucky I had parents willing to be open and believe that an 11-year-old might know what she wanted to do. Or maybe they thought I'd find out that's what I didn't want to do.
  • I was like, No way would I play an adulteress, I abhor that - I think it's immoral. And then a year later, I'm like, Wait I really want to do that.
  • I remember being shocked at many things when I got here that, unfortunately, I've become jaded to - like the racism.
  • If I had a great body, I'd be naked all the time.
  • But Basquiat is the first thing I've done that I'm really proud of.
  • My mother's death was an experience like no other, because she, in a way, she taught me to live life through her dying.
  • You know, you've got to find your partner first who you can create kids with, so it shall continue to be scripts for now.
  • I'd be quite excited to play somebody British.
  • The last three films I've done are about self-immolation.
  • Sometimes I miss the spirit of London, but it's a very gray place.
  • My parents are Italian and British. They live in Berkeley now - we all moved there four years ago.
  • I'm a college dropout.
  • I always wear baby blue.
  • I was always ready to leave England for some absurd reason.
  • I love accents.
  • I never knew where this acting gene came from, but when my mother got sick this unbelievable side came out of her that I'd never seen before.
  • Depression is close to me, but suicide hasn't been.
  • The weather in England can really darken your spirits.
  • Armani's clothes are beautiful and modern and I love him.
  • The surest thing about me is that I will change my mind.
  • The older I get, the more relaxed I am.