Wealth & Money Quote by Famke Janssen

The line reads like a quiet rebuke to the way we’re supposed to talk about acting in public: grateful, strategic, and preferably profitable. Janssen frames her career as a deliberate zigzag between the studio machine and the smaller, stranger corners of cinema, and she does it with a disarming shrug. “Maybe I should” acknowledges the rule everyone knows - take the check, secure the bag - then refuses it without apology. That little self-correction is the tell: she understands the market logic and chooses not to be governed by it.

The subtext is about agency in an industry built on branding. For actresses especially, “mainstream” can become a trap: one franchise role calcifies into a persona, then into a limited set of offers. Janssen’s insistence on moving between modes sounds less like lofty idealism than self-preservation. Artsy work isn’t just “prestige”; it’s a way to stay elastic, to keep authorship over the kind of person you get to play.

“There’s always a good reason for doing something” is the crucial pivot. It’s not romantic talk about art for art’s sake; it’s a claim to coherent motivation. She’s arguing that choices have an internal logic even when they don’t look like “smart” career moves from the outside. In an economy that reduces creative labor to metrics and box office, she’s staking out a different accounting system: meaning, risk, curiosity, timing. The point isn’t that money doesn’t matter. It’s that money can’t be the only story you tell about why you showed up.