Famke Janssen Quotes
Triple tonguing? It was sort of invented. It wasn't in the script. It was something that I came up with.
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As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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I'm a Muslim. I don't try to hide it. I'm also a girl who loves music.
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For a long time, I've been interested in cultural memory and historical erasure.
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Well, the crazy thing for me is I think out of anything that's happened in the last year, all the success, people always ask what do you guys do with the money? I don't think they realize we're not really making any money.
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You must always do what you feel is right.
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I always say that I'm at my best when there's no example of what the character is supposed to be. I thrive when there's not much and I have to create it.
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I studied Morse code.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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I'm consistently telling stories about the value of the human condition and connectedness and things like that.
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I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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You would never see me driving around in a sports car. I feel like you're so low and squish-able by transport trucks.
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I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'
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I was into basketball, but then once I found contact sports, it was over. I never played basketball again in my life.
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I used to sail a lot in all kinds of weather, competing on small sailboats in the ocean. And I travel a lot in Iceland on horses every summer, through the wild areas where there's no inhabitants and there are volcanoes.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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Love's mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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There is no such thing as too much swearing. Swearing is just a piece of linguistic mechanics. The words in-between are the clever ones.
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I want films to haunt an audience, to give them something to remember and be able to talk about.
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A lot of amateurs are terrified of going up against a player who is clearly better than they are. They never play their best, because they aren't comfortable. There's one surefire way to get over that, and it's to ask yourself, 'What if I beat him?' Imagine the possibility.
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I've always said that with kids' TV that people get stuck in it from drama school but that's not fair because I know myself that when you go in creatively, kids are so much more open to ideas. You're so much freer to mess about and try things.
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Triple tonguing? It was sort of invented. It wasn't in the script. It was something that I came up with.
