Top 33 Famke Janssen Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Once you achieve a certain level of success or fame, it becomes really difficult to go against type.

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

The Dutch are a very practical people.

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

I like the work that I get to do.

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.

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

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

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 don’t watch TV.

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

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

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

Netflix is something I watch.

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

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

I personally like to do independent films.

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

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?

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.