"I always performed when I was a child. My parents got very annoyed, because my brother and I had our little bedrooms upstairs, and I would plaster the house with posters with arrows pointing upstairs. " - Franka Potente
"I don't like actors who try to talk directors into making their part bigger and that's really lame. " - Franka Potente
"I just want to be able to sit on grass as long as I want to, without anybody telling me to leave. Everything is so restricted, here, in that you actually have to stand behind a line, you can't go up the Canyon and enjoy the view. " - Franka Potente
"I never consciously said, 'I want to be an actor.' It sounds stupid, but it's kind of like being a painter or something. You don't say, 'From today on I'm going to be a painter.' It's not something conscious - you've just been painting pictures all your life. " - Franka Potente
"I read scripts from everywhere and I decide upon the content and the quality by my standards, as to whether I like it or not. " - Franka Potente
"I said, 'Wouldn't it be great if Matt Damon's character fell in love with a girl with a real butt?' They were like, 'Yeah sure, sure - here's your personal trainer.' " - Franka Potente
"I think I'm a really good partner and very sensitive to the other person's feelings. I want somebody else to be comfortable, to understand about my job, and if they want to come on a set and see me work, they always can. " - Franka Potente
"I think when I'm in love, I really am very good with calling, little faxes, and visiting and I really put a lot of effort into it. I'm really not the one that's not available because of work and I'm very sad when I actually leave. " - Franka Potente
"I'm so uncomfortable, especially in emotional situations, having to say sentences that don't feel right. As an actor - or really, as any kind of person sensitive to it. " - Franka Potente
"My favorite things are Cigarettes, coffee, old jeans, holidays on little exotic islands, music - Bjork, Sigur Ros, Morcheeba, Garbage - and just driving around at night. " - Franka Potente
"The secret is to just keep moving. " - Franka Potente
