Famke Janssen Quotes
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.
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I think you grow up every year, every day. You learn something new and try to really worry about what's important in life.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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I'm still somebody that listens to a lot of James Brown, a lot of The O'Jays, a lot of TLC... in that era, producers had more musicianship.
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I think that we are trying to put data communications, telecommunications and media communications together and be the No. 1 player there.
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Generally I can sleep any time, anywhere, any place, unless I'm anxious about work. I can get performance anxiety, so when I'm on tour it can be hard to sleep.
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You know, I've had an incredible career and I'm blessed.
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It isn't often that the logic behind a policy is so clear. But when it comes to the value of educating girls, the evidence speaks for itself.
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You're spoilt as an actor if you are in that small percentage that works regularly.
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I love physical kinds of comedy and getting down and dirty and doing stunts. When I was growing up, I was always getting into fights with guys and usually punching out boys my age because I was a lot bigger and tougher. So I'm naturally accustomed to putting myself into the headspace of a girl who can take care of herself.
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Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we talk to ourselves... he may teach us how to accept change in ourselves as in others, and perhaps even the final form of change.
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It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, then it's because I can't stand losing. That's the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.
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I know the pressures of being the daughter of a great actress. But it's inspiring. You learn so much that other people don't get to learn until later on. My father being a director, I learnt a real work ethic.
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Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right.
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At home, I dedicate occasional whole days to reading as if I'm a convalescent. The ideal place for this is the bath, where the body floats free. Books go a little wavy, but they're mine, so who cares.
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The stage is our pulpit, and you can use all of that energy and that music and the lights and the colors and the sound. But you know, you've got to be careful.
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I really don't have an ear for pitch. I can't sing at all, I can't hum melodies and I can't write riffs.
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You didn't hear anything about 'Celtic Pride' when they had Sidney Wicks and Curtis Rowe and they were only winning 32 games a year.
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People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.
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The money was going to come and go, between a wife and the IRS. The thrill of beating the best field in golf is what will always stay with me.
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I have learned that I must take a holiday at least once each year if I want to survive!
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I don't want to overthrow the government. I wanna fire 'em.
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I'm a choir girl gone horribly, desperately wrong.
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I'm not a good lover, but at least I'm fast.
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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.
