Top 100 Jodie Quotes
#1. Most actors don't really have a director's sensibility. They have an actor's sensibility.
Jodie Foster
#2. Part of me longs to do a job where there's not a gray area.
Jodie Foster
#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.
Jodie Foster
#4. I got to work with Cillian Murphy and my dad, Jim Broadbent and Jodie Whittaker on 'Perrier's Bounty.' It was a small part, but it was really special.
Domhnall Gleeson
#5. I just want to make movies. I really love movies. I want to be involved with them.
Jodie Foster
#6. Let how you live your life stand for something, no matter how small and incidental it may seem.
Jodie Foster
#7. I was a literature major in college and that was my thing, books.
Jodie Foster
#8. So tell me about you. The real you. Not the you that you show to people online.
Jodie Andrefski
#9. Back in the spring of 2010, Stieg Larsson's agent was having a good day.
Jodie Archer
#10. 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.
Jodie Foster
#11. High school is just horrible in general. So, I think it was a good time for me to have stopped acting. I got to be normal in high school.
Jodie Sweetin
#12. I prefer to commit 100 per cent to a movie and make fewer films, because it takes over your life.
Jodie Foster
#13. 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.
Jodie Foster
#14. 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.
Jodie Foster
#15. Eskimos are uncivilised because they don't have any shops.
Jodie Marsh
#16. 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
#17. You have to be willing to sacrifice as much to prevent war, as soldiers are willing to sacrifice to wage war.
Jodie Evans
#18. Each time a woman has the courage to act and share her truth, she plants wonderful seeds. Each such seed offers freedom and power to those around her, and in this way we bring the world closer together and closer to peace.
Jodie Evans
#19. 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.
Jodie Foster
#20. I cannot believe in God when there is no scientific evidence for the existence of a supreme being and creator.
Jodie Foster
#21. When I wear a really nice and classy dress out, the papers never print it.
Jodie Marsh
#22. I try to be like a sponge when I'm around other actors, picking things up about the way they work and how they do things.
Jodie Whittaker
#23. Privacy. Someday, in the future, people will look back and remember how beautiful it once was.
Jodie Foster
#24. I think Anna and the King is a look at Asia from the Asian perspective, reflecting the Asian experience, which is very rare.
Jodie Foster
#25. Regret for the past is a waste of spirit for the future ....
Jodie Bain
#26. George W. Bush presided over an international network of torture chambers and, with the help of a compliant Congress and press, launched a war of aggression that killed hundreds of thousands of men, women and children.
Jodie Evans
#27. 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.
Jodie Foster
#28. I'd always need a creative outlet. But sometimes, I do fantasize what my life would be like if I weren't famous.
Jodie Foster
#29. It's hard to get personal films off the ground, and it's hard developing them.
Jodie Foster
#30. I guess I've played a lot of victims, but that's what a lot of the history of women is about.
Jodie Foster
#31. 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.
Jodie Foster
#32. Little White Lies The Girlfriends Series (Book #1) by Jodie Esch
Jodie Esch
#33. She touched something deep in his soul. He didn't believe in love at first sight, but the thought of hurting her made his chest ache.
Jodie B. Cooper
#34. I did a couple of plays in junior high school, maybe high school, and then I did a play in college.
Jodie Foster
#35. There were no terrorists in Iraq. There's never been an Iraqi terrorist.
Jodie Evans
#36. I was living a complete lie. But unfortunately, guilt doesn't make you stop.
Jodie Sweetin
#37. 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
Jodie Foster
#38. 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.
Jodie Foster
#39. He wanted to shake her until every one of her chattering teeth hit the ground. "What the hell are you trying to say? Why did she choose me?"
Jodie eyed him warily. "Because she thinks you're stupid.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#40. 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
#41. Since the start of the Occupy Wall Street movement, CODEPINK activists have joined the frontlines of the non-violent Occupy movement across the country.
Jodie Evans
#42. I think 'destiny' is just a fancy word for a psychological pattern.
Jodie Foster
#43. When you work with an actor, it's cool because they know what it's like to be directed themselves. Jodie directed a scene with me and Taylor that was when she starts talking to me again in prison and it's our first actual confrontation that we have, where some stuff comes out.
Laura Prepon
#44. 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.
Jodie Foster
#45. Being understood is not the most essential thing in life.
Jodie Foster
#46. 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.
Jodie Foster
#47. 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.
Jodie Foster
#48. Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock do romantic comedies. I do dark dramas. I do these movies well.
Jodie Foster
#49. Going back and forth between the press and something like The Crucible must be really crazy and intense.
Jodie Foster
#50. 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.
Jodie Foster
#51. 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
#52. I'm a huge reader ... I'm a big book nerd. I go through, like, two books a week.
Jodie Sweetin
#53. 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.
Jodie Foster
#55. In 2008, I was one of millions united for hope and change. As 2010 dawns, change looks to me like more of the same. Instead of peace, we got more war. Instead of health care reform, we have an industry win that requires Americans to buy health insurance without any real cost controls.
Jodie Evans
#56. Katie purred in pleasure as she licked the beating vein in Jared's neck.
Jodie B. Cooper
#57. 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.
Jodie Foster
#58. He seemed to think we were on the same page. I wasn't even sure we were reading the same book.
Jodie Andrefski
#59. 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.
Jodie Foster
#60. 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.
Jodie Foster
#61. About 97% of the media is created by men.
Jodie Evans
#62. 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.
Jodie Foster
#63. 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.
Jodie Foster
#65. If I fail, at least I will have failed my way.
Jodie Foster
#66. 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.
Jodie Foster
#67. I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.
Jodie Foster
#68. I don't think I really realized what being an adult and being a real grownup was until I was at least twenty-eight.
Jodie Sweetin
#69. I'm really close with Dave Coulier and his wife Melissa. My family and I go over there for barbeques, for dinners, Super Bowl parties.
Jodie Sweetin
#70. 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.
Jodie Foster
#71. 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.
Jodie Foster
#72. 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?
Jodie Foster
#73. I'd like to be Dakota Fanning when I get young.
Jodie Foster
#74. 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.
Jodie Foster
#75. 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.
Jodie Foster
#76. Most important, I hope you grow into a woman who loves herself. It is not an easy thing, self-love. It takes a lot of practice and time. But as a woman who is learning how to get there herself, I hope I can give that gift to you as you grow.
Jodie Sweetin
#77. All the movies that I make in some ways have to be the story of my life. There are different chapters in my life.
Jodie Foster
#78. My mom was always late. It drove me crazy as a child. So I'm always on time - or early.
Jodie Foster
#79. 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.
Jodie Foster
#80. We all have our demons. When we finally learn to let them go, we get to live and be free.
Jodie Sweetin
#81. 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.
Jodie Foster
#84. I love the way L A. leaves you alone. I can go home, read all day, and nobody bugs me.
Jodie Foster
#85. She was pretty normal back then, before Simon Cowell entered her life.
Jodie Sweetin
#86. There is no doubt that each of us is born an individual. Why is it then that so many of us die carbon copies?
Jodie Foster
#87. 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.
Jodie Foster
#88. happiness isn't about the events going on in your life; it's about how you handle them. It's about falling down and standing up straighter than you did before. It's about realizing that nothing comes easy.
Jodie Sweetin
#89. I remember watching Jodie Foster in Contact, and that kind of opened my eyes.
Joel Gretsch
#90. I've worked with Neil Jordan, who I really adore. We did The Brave One [2007] together.
Jodie Foster
#91. For me, feminism is about equality. So, when someone works for a Wall Street firm and says they're a feminist, my eyes are going to roll.
Jodie Evans
#92. I would have been a nightmare in any kind of office, because I wouldn't have had any friends in any environment other than performing.
Jodie Whittaker
#93. 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
#94. I spent a lot of time not in school, so I didn't have deep relationships with kids my own age.
Jodie Foster
#95. I want to be inspiring to myself, to my kids, my family, and my friends.
Jodie Foster
#97. 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.
Jodie Foster
#98. I want to change the system from within the system. And that means focusing and specializing.
Jodie Foster
#99. 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.
Jodie Foster
#100. A woman who struggles to recover from a brutal attack and sets out on a dark, psychological and physical journey for revenge and justice.
Jodie Foster
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