Quotes By Famke Janssen

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

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

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

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 personally like to do independent films.

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

I'm intrigued by the dark. Out of darkness comes creation.

I don't watch TV.

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

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 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.

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.

Just because you're of the same sex, what difference does it make? Get married to whomever you want.

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

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.

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

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

The only way to do is just to go for it, otherwise it ends up looking phoney.

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.

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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