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I think there's a big misconception out there about actors and the choices they have.

Enjoy it while it lasts.

There's certain things I try to avoid, as an actress, just to keep my world from being as narrow as it could be.

Ever since I started as an actress, just to catch up on some money, but not having an income for three years was tricky.

I started as a model in Holland and Chanel took me to New York when I was 19, after which I decided to stay.

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

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

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

I love scary movies. The Shining and Don't Look Now are two of the best.

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

I am attracted to the dark side of life!

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

Triple tonguing? It was sort of invented. It wasn't in the script. It was something that I came up with.

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.

You don't ever know with films. You just hope for the best, but sometimes it's a bit of a crapshoot.

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

Netflix is something I watch.

I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'

Jean Grey, the Phoenix ... she finds a way to reincarnate herself constantly, so one never knows.

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

Nobody sets out to make a bad film.

I personally like to do independent films.

I always feel like I want to do my career my own way.

I'm intrigued by the dark. Out of darkness comes creation.

I like the work that I get to do.

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

The only way to do is just to go for it, otherwise it ends up looking phoney.

Disneyland is supposed to be the happiest place on Earth and I have to say when I'm riding around in that crazy Space Mountain ride I'm happy.

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

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

I look a certain way. I have a very specific kind of look.

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.

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

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.

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

I felt different born into a family with two sisters who are blonde and blue-eyed, with me being the only brunette.

The Dutch are a very practical people.

I love stories about two people who are doing illegal things, who we really enjoy watching despite the fact that we know they are doomed in some way.

It's not as if you can act bigger to fit the surroundings or the budget more. Whatever, it just doesn't work that way.

I would rather not work than play in a movie that nobody watches.

Film has played such a big part in my life, in my impressions of the United States.

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