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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I never carry a purse. My iPhone is always with me, a credit card, and a piece of mint chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream gum.
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Too many of Disney animators, and a lot try to emulate Disney, are trying to hit what they call quality levels. They're boring mannerisms.
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I like to do Pilates.
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Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.
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Stand-up comedy and comedy in general is the ultimate form of free speech, because you get to poke holes in all the pretentious bubbles politicians and pundits and popes and pretenders try to float over our heads.
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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.
