Famke Janssen Quotes
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.
I always feel like I want to do my career my own way. I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.
I try not to have high expectations of people because it just sets you up for disappointment, but it's great to work with actors who are that talented and accomplished.
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.
We've always been ready for female superheroes. Because women want to be them and men want to do them.
I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'
I don't know how to cook and there's so much work involved you have to buy the groceries and prepare them. I like it when people cook for me, or I'll just order some take-out.
I felt different born into a family with two sisters who are blonde and blue-eyed, with me being the only brunette.
I started as a model in Holland and Chanel took me to New York when I was 19, after which I decided to stay.
I love the first two X-Men movies because I thought that Bryan Singer did such a great job. He elevated that whole genre. He's a very talented director.
I love stories about two people who are doing illegal things, who we really enjoy watching despite the fact that we know they are doomed in some way.
Jean Grey, the Phoenix... she finds a way to reincarnate herself constantly, so one never knows.
Triple tonguing? It was sort of invented. It wasnt in the script. It was something that I came up with.
Once you achieve a certain level of success or fame, it becomes really difficult to go against type.
If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.
There's certain things I try to avoid, as an actress, just to keep my world from being as narrow as it could be.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ever since I started as an actress, just to catch up on some money, but not having an income for three years was tricky.
The biggest challenge is how you get money for independent films, in these ever-changing times when most people don't really want to invest in that anymore.
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 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.
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.
Robert De Niro... It seemed like a pretty cool thing to do to put his name on my resume next.
I don't think about better. You just want it to work. You want it to work and you have your guide with the script. You want it to exist and complete.
