103 Quotes by Famke Janssen

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

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

It’s different for each individual. It’s different when you talk about homosexuality. It’s different when you talk about a malady like deafness. Everybody might have a different response to that and that’s what makes it an interesting subject to throw in a movie.

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

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

The biggest challenge is how you get money for independent films, in these ever-changing times when most people don’t really want to invest in that anymore.

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.

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 don’t think about better. You just want it to work. You want it to work and you have your guide with the script. You want it to exist and complete...