Franka Potente Quotes

To give somebody your time is the biggest gift you can give.

The secret is to just keep moving.

I don't like actors who try to talk directors into making their part bigger and that's really lame.

Difference is always the biggest challenge for humans. That's why we do enjoy reading or watching movies or watching TV. It's a personal challenge to get close to people that we never get close to.

Everybody is great when things are great. It's the 'not great' stuff that matters.

I'm so uncomfortable, especially in emotional situations, having to say sentences that don't feel right. As an actor - or really, as any kind of person sensitive to it.

I've published one book before, and now I'm writing a book of essays and stories about life in Tokyo. And I have one book coming out in May in Germany, about fitness.

Only in movies or books or TV do we have a chance to actually like aspects of a killer.

As the audience, I always love to get to a point where, surprisingly, I find myself in a secret friendship allegiance with the characters that are unexpected.

I choose my work very carefully, always for the script and the director, and I don't think that's going to change. My work is like a house. It's built on very strong poles.

When I was a kid at first I wanted to own a candy shop. I guess every kid wants to - we just want to have access - free access.

I think actors are divided into two groups: one that wants to be an actor to become famous and rich, and the other that wants to be an actor because they have to be. I'm more in the second group.