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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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Akshay Vasu

"I remember when first, Stripes, and then Animal House came out - which I was really proud of, even though it was kind of loose and quite raucous - there were imitative movies that were not quite as good."

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Akshay Vasu

"I make movies I want to see."

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Akshay Vasu

"I live very normally, I go out with my friends, we go to the movies, I queue, we go to restaurants."

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Akshay Vasu

"I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations."

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Akshay Vasu

"Of all the movies I've done in my life, the one where I play a crazy awful psycho woman finds me my husband."

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Akshay Vasu

"I've been very successful doing voices in movies. I did Olive, the Other Reindeer, with Drew Barrymore, and I did Cats and Dogs. My children came to some of the sessions."

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Akshay Vasu

"There were not fifteen people in the story department and twenty-five producers and stuff. And Roger had produced 1,000 movies and directed a couple of hundred, and their comments were always very, very specific."

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Akshay Vasu

"I mean, movies are like your kids or your fingers and toes or something, it's pretty hard to pick favorites."

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Akshay Vasu

"Like some of my other movies, 'Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes' is also a very political film, and many critics still consider it even the best of all the Apes movies, because it conveys a series of political viewpoints."

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Akshay Vasu

"Yes was a band where we could explore some of those ideas, but I knew that if I wanted to get into orchestral music and make a living at it, movies seemed to be a perfect spot."

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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 don't know how to cook and there's so much work involved you have to buy the groceries and prepare them. I like it when people cook for me, or I'll just order some take-out."

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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
"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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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 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
"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
"We've always been ready for female superheroes. Because women want to be them and men want to do them."

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Famke Janssen
"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."

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