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Famke Janssen

"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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"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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A.E. Samaan

"Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him."

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A.E. Samaan

"The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies."

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A.E. Samaan

"Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine."

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A.E. Samaan

"I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies."

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A.E. Samaan

"I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other."

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A.E. Samaan

"Frank is such a great visual storyteller, that if you study his artwork you see that his Sin City books are already the best movies never seen on the big screen."

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A.E. Samaan

"Luck, I never looked to make difficult movies on purpose. You make the films you can make."

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A.E. Samaan

"Movies are nice, but there are very few roles for women and most of them are sluts or something."

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A.E. Samaan

"Even when I was a little kid, I always said I would be in the movies one day, and damned if I didn't make it."

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A.E. Samaan

"It took me 20 years of making movies to learn how to do it."

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Famke Janssen
"Just because you're of the same sex, what difference does it make? Get married to whomever you want."

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

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Famke Janssen
"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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Famke Janssen
"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."

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Famke Janssen
"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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Famke Janssen
"I try not to have high expectations of people because it just sets you up for disappointment, but it's great to work with actors who are that talented and accomplished."

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

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Famke Janssen
"I love the first two X-Men movies because I thought that Bryan Singer did such a great job. He elevated that whole genre. He's a very talented director."

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Famke Janssen
"I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA."

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Famke Janssen
"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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