Top 30 Famke Janssen Quotes

I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.

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 know Dark Phoenix is a huge part of the X-Men saga, so I’m assuming they’re at least going to want to touch on it, but I don’t know and I don’t know whether I would want to be involved. That depends on many different things.

I personally like to do independent films.

I’m 5′ 11″ as I proudly say – just so I don’t have to say six feet.

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

I always feel like I want to do my career my own way.

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.

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?

I don’t watch TV.

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

I started as a model in Holland and Chanel took me to New York when I was 19, after which I decided to stay.

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.

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

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

I never follow anybody‘s path, what they’ve done.

If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.

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

I am attracted to the dark side of life!

Film has played such a big part in my life, in my impressions of the United States.

I always feel like I want to do my career my own way. I never follow anybody’s path, what they’ve done.

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 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.

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.

During my first visit, I was really struck by how deeply religious many Oklahomans are. It is a very conservative state and as somebody who grew up in a very liberal country, it was jarring to me at first.

I like the work that I get to do.

I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera ‘Melrose Place.’