Quotes By Famke Janssen

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.

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

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

The Dutch are a very practical people.

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

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.

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.

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.

I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.

I personally like to do independent films.

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

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.

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?