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Franka Potente

(1974) Screenwriter Germany

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Franka Potente is a screenwriter from Germany, best known for Zehn.

Quick Facts About Franka Potente

Born: July 22, 1974
Nationality: Germany
Profession: Screenwriter
Notable works: Zehn
Spouse: Derek Richardson

About Franka Potente

Franka Potente is a German actress. She first appeared in the comedy film After Five in the Forest Primeval (1995), for which she won a Bavarian Film Award for Best Young Actress. Her breakthrough came in 1998, when she starred in the acclaimed action thriller Run Lola Run, for which she won a BAMBI Award for Best Actress. She received further critical acclaim and a Bavarian Television Award nomination for her performance in the television film Opernball.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Bambi Award German Film Award Bavarian TV Awards MTV Europe Music Award for Best German Act

Quotes by Franka Potente

To give somebody your time is the biggest gift you can give.

Birthday

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I was hesitant about doing too big a role in an American movie because it meant losing my German accent.

American

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I never wear fur, and I am a spokesperson for PETA.

Am

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I love it when, after a day of shooting, I'm so exhausted that my bones hurt.

Day

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I think when I'm in love, I really am very good with calling, little faxes, and visiting and I really put a…

Available

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As a creative person, you want to be creative, you know? You don't want to constantly wait around - a lot of…

Around

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TV shows are great right now in America. I find myself - and I hate to admit it - but we watch…

Be creative

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As the audience, I always love to get to a point where, surprisingly, I find myself in a secret friendship allegiance with…

Allegiance

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My background is a small town with no movie theater. So... I always pictured myself onstage. I went to acting school and…

Acting

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Don't worry about things that haven't happened yet.

About

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I think I'm a really good partner and very sensitive to the other person's feelings. I want somebody else to be comfortable,…

Comfortable

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I don't like actors who try to talk directors into making their part bigger and that's really lame.

Bigger

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I've published one book before, and now I'm writing a book of essays and stories about life in Tokyo. And I have…

Book

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Television in America is so elaborate. There are so many remote cranes, and they have all the toys to play with. The…

America

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'The Princess and the Warrior' is looking at the same things as 'Lola' - just from a different angle.

Looking

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Everyone thinks 'Lola' was my first film, but I'd made 14 movies before that.

Before

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When 'Run Lola Run' came out, the thing about it was it was a very fast-paced film.

About

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I've always hated people in costumes with big heads, where you don't know what's behind it.

Always

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We've lost the ability to immerse ourselves in things.

Ability

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Only in movies or books or TV do we have a chance to actually like aspects of a killer.

Aspect

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I don't want to clone anyone, not even myself.

Anyone

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We learn English from fifth grade on in school, and I was an exchange student when I was 17 in Houston.

Fifth grade

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I think working with Johnny Depp was very intimidating. It was my fault though. I mean he's a total cool nice, nice…

Cool

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People look at me as an exotic person, which is great, because whatever Hollywood is, it seems very dogmatic to me, especially…

Great

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I always performed when I was a child. My parents got very annoyed, because my brother and I had our little bedrooms…

Annoyed

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