Famke Janssen Quotes - Page 2

Ever since I started as an actress, just to catch up on some money, but not having an income for three years was tricky.

It's never been important to be a huge star or to have some breakout role. If you're the lead, you get a lot more screen time and you get a lot more chances to develop that character more thoroughly than you would if you do it in a little supporting part.

When someone holds a knife to your throat it's easy to be scared. It's not hard to imagine what it would be like.

I like to go from mainstream movies to more artsy films. I don't sign on for the money. Maybe I should, but I don't. There's always a good reason for doing something.

I have a friend in New York who's a stylist and I went over to her place because she's got a lot of clothes. I basically ended up wearing most of it. So it's all stuff that I brought over.

Everybody gets typecast in movies, but you have to make wise choices. I'd say around 90 percent of movie casting is about the way you look, so you have to fight that. If producers had their way, I'd only be in action films, but I'm interested in a more varied career than that.

I want to work with great directors. I want to work on good material with good actors. I've probably done 20 movies at this point and a lot of independents. It's been an incredible ride and I love it and I'm just going to keep going and doing what I'm doing.

We've always been ready for female superheroes. Because women want to be them and men want to do them.

Triple tonguing? It was sort of invented. It wasnt in the script. It was something that I came up with.

I would rather not work than play in a movie that nobody watches.

In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?

Robert De Niro... It seemed like a pretty cool thing to do to put his name on my resume next.

I personally like to do independent films.

When somebody walks into a room they give off a certain kind of vibe or whatever and at that point that's how you're going to cast them.

I don't even have cable anymore, or a television. I just watch on computers. It's clearly the future of where we're heading.

I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.

Every single time when you act in a film, and there's a different director, which of course as actors we're used to experiencing that's what we do, it's a different experience.

I think one of the biggest things is the budget.For a studio, becomes a very big challenge to make sure that movie will work even better on every level. As an actor I don't think in those terms when I make a movie.

It's not as if you can act bigger to fit the surroundings or the budget more. Whatever, it just doesn't work that way.

It's different for each individual. It's different when you talk about homosexuality. It's different when you talk about a malady like deafness. Everybody might have a different response to that and that's what makes it an interesting subject to throw in a movie.

The great thing I think when you do independents is that people are really there for the same reason. They're not there because they got a lot of money and they want to just go home and get it over with. They're there because they believe in the script or the director or the cast or whatever it is, and they want to make it work.

I am attracted to the dark side of life!

Once you achieve a certain level of success or fame, it becomes really difficult to go against type.

Disneyland is supposed to be the happiest place on Earth and I have to say when I'm riding around in that crazy Space Mountain ride I'm happy.

As a European I had fit in almost seamlessly in New York for the last 25 years, but in Oklahoma I stood out like a sore thumb.