Quotes from Famke Janssen


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My French is still good. That's a beautiful language and I'm happy to speak it.


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


You don't ever know with films. You just hope for the best, but sometimes it's a bit of a crapshoot.


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 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 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.


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.


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 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.


There's certain things I try to avoid, as an actress, just to keep my world from being as narrow as it could be.


Triple tonguing? It was sort of invented. It wasn't in the script. It was something that I came up with.


I've lived in New York for a really long time.


I'm trying to fight typecasting as hard as I can, while I have time.


I'm 5' 11" as I proudly say - just so I don't have to say six feet.


I think there's a big misconception out there about actors and the choices they have.


I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.


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.


I love scary movies. The Shining and Don't Look Now are two of the best.


I look a certain way. I have a very specific kind of look.


I like the work that I get to do.