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 just want to make movies. I really love movies. I want to be involved with them.
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#5. Let how you live your life stand for something, no matter how small and incidental it may seem.
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#6. I was a literature major in college and that was my thing, books.
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#7. 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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#8. I prefer to commit 100 per cent to a movie and make fewer films, because it takes over your life.
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#9. 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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#10. As an actor, I'm attracted to drama; as a director, it's humor - because it's the story of my life, and I can't be that serious about it. Being alone is a big theme in all my movies, both as a director and as an actress.
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#11. I hate the stereotype of the pitfalls of the child actor. There are so many amazing examples - Natalie Portman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jodie Foster, Drew Barrymore - of people who have made it through.
Jamie Bell
#12. Where I have problems is when I am in the midst of doing something that I am completely focused on, and then I am asked to buy shoes or something.
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#13. I cannot believe in God when there is no scientific evidence for the existence of a supreme being and creator.
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#14. Privacy. Someday, in the future, people will look back and remember how beautiful it once was.
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#15. 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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#16. 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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#17. I'd always need a creative outlet. But sometimes, I do fantasize what my life would be like if I weren't famous.
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#18. It's hard to get personal films off the ground, and it's hard developing them.
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#19. I guess I've played a lot of victims, but that's what a lot of the history of women is about.
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#20. 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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#21. I did a couple of plays in junior high school, maybe high school, and then I did a play in college.
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#22. I can't imagine ever not doing [acting]. I would feel like I would have lost a limb. But I am older now, and sometimes I wonder who I would have been and what about me would have changed had I not had these experiences as a young person
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#23. Well, I certainly was exposed to and learned to appreciate the work of great directors early on. As a kid, my mother used to take me to see really interesting arty films in Los Angeles.
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#24. I'll probably pursue doing more movies, but not horror or movies with killers in them. I'll try to stick to happy movies. I want to act and direct like Jodie Foster. I admire her because she went to college and she's still doing the same thing.
Lindsay Lohan
#25. I think 'destiny' is just a fancy word for a psychological pattern.
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#26. 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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#27. Being understood is not the most essential thing in life.
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#28. 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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#29. Sometimes, you really don't understand why something is important to you until you get halfway through the movie - or maybe even all the way through.
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#30. Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock do romantic comedies. I do dark dramas. I do these movies well.
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#31. Going back and forth between the press and something like The Crucible must be really crazy and intense.
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#32. 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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#33. I have great respect for actors like Jodie Foster and Natalie Portman who went to school the entire time they were acting. All I did was one small little independent film, and I realised I couldn't balance both lives.
Nikki Reed
#34. I don't like the outside world to intrude when I'm making a film. I like to either see my family or work, but I don't like to go out.
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#36. 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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#37. 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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#38. 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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#39. 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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#40. It was a weird moment in my life and a weird experience [doing a theater]. It made me think, "Gee, I don't know if I ever want to do this again." And I love theater. I love going. I love the experience of theater. But I am not sure it's for me.
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#41. If I fail, at least I will have failed my way.
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#42. Every movie that I've had to really knock down the door for has been an enormous success for me. Not just like a financial success but a real personal success.
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#43. I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.
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#44. 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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#45. 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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#46. 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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#47. I'd like to be Dakota Fanning when I get young.
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#48. I think there is something to being curious about your choices, but not wanting to kind of pierce the bubble of them, because it takes away from the act of discovering.
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#49. 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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#50. 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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#51. My mom was always late. It drove me crazy as a child. So I'm always on time - or early.
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#52. I'm interested in directing movies about situations that I've lived, so they are almost a personal essay about what I've come to believe in.
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#53. People say as a woman actor your career is over at 40. But then they told me I would never work again after I was 16.
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#54. I love the way L A. leaves you alone. I can go home, read all day, and nobody bugs me.
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#55. There is no doubt that each of us is born an individual. Why is it then that so many of us die carbon copies?
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#56. 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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#57. I remember watching Jodie Foster in Contact, and that kind of opened my eyes.
Joel Gretsch
#58. I've worked with Neil Jordan, who I really adore. We did The Brave One [2007] together.
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#59. Everyone always says, 'Kristen got 'Panic Room' because she looks like Jodie Foster.' But it was actually Nicole Kidman who was supposed to play my mother.
Kristen Stewart
#60. 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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#61. I want to be inspiring to myself, to my kids, my family, and my friends.
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#62. 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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#63. I want to change the system from within the system. And that means focusing and specializing.
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#64. 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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#65. 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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#66. 'Silence Of The Lambs' was not something people expected me to do.
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#67. 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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#68. You hold all of our futures in your hands. So you better make it good.
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#69. I didn't get into acting to have a moment, I got into it because of people who've inspired me, like Judi Dench, Holly Hunter, and Jodie Foster.
Amy Adams
#70. My earliest memories are doing commercials and TV.
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#71. 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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#72. I don't make movies because I love to act. I make movies because I like to make movies, and I like to be a part of that process.
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#73. But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business was because there was Midnight Cowboy.
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#74. 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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#75. I like to nap. I do like to sleep. Sometimes I sleep in between takes.
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#76. I think anybody over 30 plays parents because it happens in your thirties and so that's kind of a natural progression. But I'm definitely drawn to it. It's probably the most intense, passionate thing that happens to you as you get older.
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#77. Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
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#78. 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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#79. 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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#80. The movies I made when I was 14 or 15, I have a hard time looking at those. Those were the awkward years. I don't know if anybody can look at something they did when they were 14 and not wince.
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#81. As time goes on, I will play characters who get older: I don't want to be some Botoxed weirdo.
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#82. 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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#83. 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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#84. I didn't grow up really wanting to be an actor. I don't remember ever not being an actor.
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#85. Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable.
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#86. There are conscious reasons and unconscious reasons why I pick something. You know, I have to be moved by the story and usually that means it has to touch me in some kind of personal place.
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#87. Interestingly, when you do films, sometimes you have conscious reasons, things that you were looking for, or stuff that you were trying to do. And then, you see the film and you think, "Wow, it ended up being something totally different!"
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#88. I think every movie changes me and is life changing, especially movies you direct.
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#89. 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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#90. Fox bought the rights to the book way back when, and there was this attempt by Fox to make a movie out of 'The Hot Zone,' and it tended tragically in a Hollywood disaster involving Robert Redford and Jodie Foster and Ridley Scott. But the rights have been sitting at Fox ever since.
Richard Preston
#91. I'd like to follow in the footsteps along like Jodie Foster and Natalie Portman, who got their education.
Bailee Madison
#92. There's absolutely no sort of acknowledgment or reward for this - except for the intangible of my kids growing up to be wonderful people.
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#93. So, yes, there's nothing I love more than listening to directors talk about their movies.
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#94. 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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#95. 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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#96. 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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#97. There is no direct evidence, so how could you ask me to believe in God ...
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#98. 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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#99. 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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#100. You would never argue about a straight girl playing a lesbian. Everybody still watched 'The L Word.' I feel like we have such great role models, like Jane Lynch and Jodie Foster and all these people that you don't even think about.
Kirsten Vangsness
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