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.
I don't like actors who try to talk directors into making their part bigger and that's really lame.
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.
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.
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.
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.'
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.
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.
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.
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.
The secret is to just keep moving.
She wrote and directed a short movie called Der die Tolikirsche ausgraebt in 2005.
She has her German citizenship.
Her great-great-grandfather was an Italian roof-tiler.
Franka plays two instraments the violin and the flute.
Because her hair is often bleached or dyed for movie roles, Franka has shaved off her hair bald after getting done with the movies so her hair can grow back to her natuaral color.
One of her hobbies is fencing.
The writer of the movie Run Lola Run, Tom Tykwer, wrote the movie specifically for Franka and casted her as the main character Lola.
Franka says that she was discovered in a public restroom in a bar.
Franka's father is a teacher.
Potente means powerful in Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese.
She is 5' 8?" tall.
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