Top 100 Jodie Foster Quotes
#1. Most actors don't really have a director's sensibility. They have an actor's sensibility.
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#2. Part of me longs to do a job where there's not a gray area.
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#3. This is the place where I learned to live this life, to curse this life, and to claim this life for my very own.
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#4. I was a literature major in college and that was my thing, books.
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#5. I didn't work very much when they were young, and I had the luxury to be able to do that. Most people can't.
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#6. I prefer to commit 100 per cent to a movie and make fewer films, because it takes over your life.
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#7. I don't direct so that I can have an identity and so I can go on to CGI movies. I had a big identity as an actor, and that's not what I'm looking for from directing. Directing is a whole different goal.
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#8. I cannot believe in God when there is no scientific evidence for the existence of a supreme being and creator.
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#9. Privacy. Someday, in the future, people will look back and remember how beautiful it once was.
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#10. I think Anna and the King is a look at Asia from the Asian perspective, reflecting the Asian experience, which is very rare.
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#11. As I've said before, and I still hold to, I truly am the most boring person alive. And if there was a great investigation to be found at the end of the resume, it would be, the most boring person alive.
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#12. It's hard to get personal films off the ground, and it's hard developing them.
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#13. Acting just happens to be my skill, but I think I would probably be just as happy being a technician or entering into the film business in some other way.
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#14. I look back at my career when I was younger and can connect what I was going through at the time with the characters I was playing. I see the similarities in them reflecting on my life.
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#15. I never know what's going to move me. I'm always surprised. And it's always a mystery to the people who work with me.
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#16. Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock do romantic comedies. I do dark dramas. I do these movies well.
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#17. Going back and forth between the press and something like The Crucible must be really crazy and intense.
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#18. Any actor working a long time should know how a shot is set up, where to place themselves, how to handle the lines. I'm a member of the crew, like the best boy, the electrician. What I'm good at is making eyes at the camera.
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#20. I don't have a burning desire to act, strangely enough. I don't know that if I hadn't been an actor as a young person, I don't know that I ever would have chosen this because it's not really my personality.
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#21. Look, it's terrible, I know, but weakness really, really bugs me, to the point that if there is a wounded bird on the sidewalk, I look at it and I go: I think I'll just kick it.
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#22. All of the thinking and planning that you do to get there, and then, in one minute, in one second, it just doesn't matter. It goes out the window. You either got it or you didn't. There is something kind of refreshing about that.
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#23. I was never the ingenue or the pretty girlfriend of Tom Cruise in a movie. I didn't have that career, so I don't have to compete on that level.
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#24. If I fail, at least I will have failed my way.
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#25. I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.
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#26. There are lots of futurists that spend their whole life trying to figure out who we're going to be in 40, 50, 60, 100 years. That's the great thing about science fiction.
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#27. We think, "If I have more money, I am more valuable. If I make more money, I am more valuable." It's all sort of wound up with this problem that humans have with their failure.
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#28. I don't think there is anything good about fame. 'Tables in restaurants.' People say that but, then again, why don't you just call the day before? Or go eat somewhere else?
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#29. I make movies about people in spiritual crisis because it's a way for me to spend the time, the energy, the focus and the obsession to come to terms with my own spiritual crisis.
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#30. All the movies that I make in some ways have to be the story of my life. There are different chapters in my life.
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#31. My mom was always late. It drove me crazy as a child. So I'm always on time - or early.
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#32. I'm really not a clothes person. To me, that's just work. It's the thing I hate to do the most. I don't want to be judged in that way.
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#33. I spent a lot of time not in school, so I didn't have deep relationships with kids my own age.
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#34. I want to be inspiring to myself, to my kids, my family, and my friends.
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#35. I conducted a bunch of interviews for Interview magazine. They actually paid me. I think I was probably 18 or 19. I was in college and I remember feeling, like, "Wow." I had a real job, and they paid me money, and it was exciting.
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#36. I want to change the system from within the system. And that means focusing and specializing.
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#37. It's very hard for me to get a new car. It's really hard for me to get a new house. It's really hard for me to move on from the things that give me stability.
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#38. A woman who struggles to recover from a brutal attack and sets out on a dark, psychological and physical journey for revenge and justice.
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#39. 'Silence Of The Lambs' was not something people expected me to do.
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#40. I had a prodigious life, living in a grown-up world when I was a child. But I think my abilities were about perceptiveness, and they were about examining psychology and examining people and relationships.
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#41. You hold all of our futures in your hands. So you better make it good.
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#42. Being twenty-something is all about taking it in: eating it, drinking it, and spitting out the seeds later. It's about being fearless, and stupid, and dangerous, and unfocused, and abandoned. It's about being in it, not on top of it
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#43. I absolutely love religions and the rituals. Even though I don't believe in God, we celebrate pretty much every religion in our family with the kids.
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#44. I like to nap. I do like to sleep. Sometimes I sleep in between takes.
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#45. Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
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#46. I don't know if I see myself as really an action hero, but I like doing physical movies and I like doing movies where the writing is very lean.
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#47. I saw leaving college as an opportunity to do something different with my life. I always thought that becoming an academic was going to be my path.
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#48. As time goes on, I will play characters who get older: I don't want to be some Botoxed weirdo.
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#49. I like to be in a different place when I make a movie so that I can't really focus on anything else, and that is your world.
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#50. The world is littered with movies about people that are depressed that either did not come out or are not successful.
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#51. I didn't grow up really wanting to be an actor. I don't remember ever not being an actor.
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#52. I think every movie changes me and is life changing, especially movies you direct.
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#53. I had a certain career as an actor that I think was quite personal as well, and had a lot of integrity, but I wasn't writing my own things or directing my own movies.
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#54. So, yes, there's nothing I love more than listening to directors talk about their movies.
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#55. There are 400 billion stars out there, just in our galaxy alone. If just one out of a million of those had planets, and just one in a million of those had life, and just one out of a million of those had intelligent life, there would be literally millions of civilizations out there.
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#56. Caitriona Balfe, who is Irish, is also in my movie. I asked her to play her Irish accent in the movie, but her own brogue is so faint that I had to keep pumping it up.
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#57. With 'Taxi Driver,' I had this eureka moment. I realized that acting could be much more than what I had been doing. I had to build a character that wasn't me.
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#58. There is no direct evidence, so how could you ask me to believe in God ...
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#59. I don't see anyone walking around with a puppet on his hand in real life. Puppet therapy is very common for children. It's not something that adults take on.
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#60. I'm not interested in being perfect when im older. Im interested in having a narrative. It's the narrative that's really the most beautiful thing about women.
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#61. Boys are easy. I mean, there are just a lot of bruises when they're young. With boys, you get a lot of accidental jabs in the eye and stepping on your feet, and those tantrums they cause when they don't want to leave the toy store.
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#62. Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting.
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#63. Just to set the record straight, a salary for a given on-screen performance does not include the right to invade anyone's privacy, to destroy someone's sense of self.
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#64. Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships.
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#65. I don't know why people think child actresses in particular are screwed up. I see kids everywhere who are totally bored. I've never been bored a day in my life.
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#66. Being an artist is a way of saying, I am here, and this is what I stand for.
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#67. I love European movies and I kind of grew up on European films.
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#68. I read more than I do anything else, probably. I read about three books a week.
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#69. I make dark dramas, movies about people living in desperate fear who then overcome that fear and find a heroic side to themselves.
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#70. I wish people could get over the hang-up of subtitles, although at the same time, you know, that's kind of why I'm kind of pro dubbing.
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#71. I made, like, five movies while I was in college. I think they just weren't memorable movies. I've taken breaks as the years have gone on - I burn out every once in a while.
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#72. I do think it's true that anytime somebody comes to you and says, "I'd like to be in your film," it's never good to dismiss them or make fun of them, because if they're passionate and driven enough, they very well might find a way to be in your film.
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#73. I've only been to Dublin once, and I had a great time. I got completely soaked because it was rainy.
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#74. You develop a third eye where you kind of know where they are in a room at all times but no matter how vigilant you are as a parent, at some point, you'll look around a room and can't find them and there's a searing pain that goes through your body.
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#75. I've got that Irish thing going on. Lots of Irish in my background.
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#76. I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.
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#77. When I go into the stores, I pet the saddles. Until security comes and takes me away.
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#78. It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.
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#80. It's a tough trick to be able to create an intelligent movie that has socio-political commentary, and also has the emotional and moving stuff, at the same time.
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#81. I'm a technician. I don't go for the get-into-the-role stuff. I read the lines and play the scenes.
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#82. I think I'm drawn to films more as a director with a directorial mind even as an actor. I make movies to make the films, not to act.
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#83. My kids are young and my life with them is really stimulating and really full and significant.
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#84. I also feel like I've learned over the years what is not important, and that is also great: to know what is pointless to spend your energy on, to be more specific.
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#85. I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.
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#86. By the first week of shooting, you know exactly where your film is heading based on the psychology of your director.
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#87. What the digital age has offered us, in terms of connectivity and transparency, is that all of these people from weird places in the world are all talking to each other, at four in the morning, and are sharing ideas. There's more openness than has ever been known, so that's a good thing.
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#88. It's a skill that people are born with. Either you're a focuser or you're a multitasky person. I am a full-focus person.
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#89. But now I really don't want to work unless I really, really care about a project.
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#90. When I think about what part of my college experience came back in my work experience, I feel like it was learning how to read deeper, learning how to keep filling the movie up with more and more resonance.
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#91. Every movie changes you. The process of making a film changes you.
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#92. As an actor, I'm always playing solitary characters. But as a director, I'm always making ensemble movies, which focus on lots of people's lives and how they intertwine.
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#93. Otherness is a big thing for me. I'm always drawn to characters that live lives that I couldn't lead.
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#94. I do almost all my movies in French. I dub them.
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#95. I was one of those avid moviegoers as a kid, and we didn't have video, so we went to see everything five times. I went to see every foreign film playing in my town. As times went on, I watched a lot less films. I have a different film school now. My film school now is my life experience.
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#96. Casting is a long process for me. I take a lot of time.
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#97. Ninety-five percent of women's experiences are about being a victim. Or about being an underdog, or having to survive ... women didn't go to Vietnam and blow things up. They are not Rambo.
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#98. I don't find acting and directing schizophrenic in any way. I find it completely easy to move between the two.
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#99. People are always surprised when I say that I'm an atheist.
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#100. I fantasize about having a manual job where I can come home at night, read a book and not feel responsible for what will happen the next day.
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