Quotes from Famke Janssen

During my first visit, I was really struck by how deeply religious many Oklahomans are. It is a very conservative state and as somebody who grew up in a very liberal country, it was jarring to me at first.

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

I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.

I personally like to do independent films.

If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.

I like to go from mainstream movies to more artsy films. I don't sign on for the money. Maybe I should, but I don't. There's always a good reason for doing something.

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.

The Dutch are a very practical people.

Robert De Niro... It seemed like a pretty cool thing to do to put his name on my resume next.

Once you achieve a certain level of success or fame, it becomes really difficult to go against type.

I am attracted to the dark side of life!

I'm 5' 11" as I proudly say - just so I don't have to say six feet.

I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.

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

Everybody gets typecast in movies, but you have to make wise choices. I'd say around 90 percent of movie casting is about the way you look, so you have to fight that. If producers had their way, I'd only be in action films, but I'm interested in a more varied career than that.

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.

When someone holds a knife to your throat it's easy to be scared. It's not hard to imagine what it would be like.

As a European I had fit in almost seamlessly in New York for the last 25 years, but in Oklahoma I stood out like a sore thumb.

I'm trying to fight typecasting as hard as I can, while I have time.

I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.

Every single time when you act in a film, and there's a different director, which of course as actors we're used to experiencing that's what we do, it's a different experience.

I've lived in New York for a really long time.

The great thing I think when you do independents is that people are really there for the same reason. They're not there because they got a lot of money and they want to just go home and get it over with. They're there because they believe in the script or the director or the cast or whatever it is, and they want to make it work.

I know Dark Phoenix is a huge part of the X-Men saga, so I'm assuming they're at least going to want to touch on it, but I don't know and I don't know whether I would want to be involved. That depends on many different things.