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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There's established gaming IP that's coming from console to mobile, which is interesting. Everything is converging a little bit toward mobile devices in the living room. On the casual side, the graphics and animation and game design and all of those variables are improving.
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There are always discussions about casting stars in lead roles in theater - especially when you're working with commercial producers - and it's not something I'm against, not at all. But any casting has to be right for the project.
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Choice is your greatest power. It is an even greater power than love, because you must first choose to be a loving person.
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Keep yourself busy if you want to avoid depression. For me, inactivity is the enemy.
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Sometimes I eat at, like, 9:30 at night and then go to bed at 10:30 and wake up at 4:00.
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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.
