"When you absolutely believe in yourself and your ability to succeed, nothing will stop you."

“Since I have known God in a saving manner, painting, poetry, and music have had charms unknown to me before. I have received what I suppose is a taste for them, or religion has refined my mind and made it susceptible of impressions from the sublime and beautiful. O, how religion secures the heightened enjoyment of those pleasures which keep so many from God, by their becoming a source of pride!”

“If you look at the end of the movie [Monsegnor Lahzar], I give a lot of space to what the spectator can also imagine of what's going to be Bachir's life afterwards. So, there's the restraint part, and there's the fact that the story is happening in the school which allowed me to tackle all these subjects without making it too didactic, because in the school everything happens.”

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

Source : "Famke Janssen Talks TAKEN 2, HANSEL AND GRETEL: WITCH HUNTERS, HEMLOCK GROVE, Her Directorial Debut BRINGING UP BOBBY and Follow-Up RIO ROJO". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 3, 2012.

“Possible things aren't worth much, it's those crazy impossible things that keep us passionate and alive.”

“I don't want to fail the audience. I don't want to let them down.”

“Please say this gas bill is just an estimate”

“Creativity is the firing of my soul.”

“I don't think if you take somebody's temperature a lot that will make them well.”

Source : "Mommy Blues" by Ruth Conniff, progressive.org. February 21, 2005.