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

Famke Janssen

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Famke Janssen
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: November 5
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I want to work with great directors. I want to work on good material with good actors. I've probably done 20 movies at this point and a lot of independents. It's been an incredible ride and I love it and I'm just going to keep going and doing what I'm doing.
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Just because youre of the same sex, what difference does it make? Get married to whomever you want.
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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.
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Once you achieve a certain level of success or fame, it becomes really difficult to go against type.
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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.
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I don't even have cable anymore, or a television. I just watch on computers. It's clearly the future of where we're heading.
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If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.
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The Dutch are a very practical people.
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I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'
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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.
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We've always been ready for female superheroes. Because women want to be them and men want to do them.
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When somebody walks into a room they give off a certain kind of vibe or whatever and at that point that's how you're going to cast them.
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There's certain things I try to avoid, as an actress, just to keep my world from being as narrow as it could be.
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I'm 5' 11 as I proudly say - just so I don't have to say six feet.
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Nobody sets out to make a bad film.
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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.
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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.
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I think there's a big misconception out there about actors and the choices they have.
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I like the work that I get to do.
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I think one of the biggest things is the budget.For a studio, becomes a very big challenge to make sure that movie will work even better on every level. As an actor I don't think in those terms when I make a movie.
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