Jodie Foster Quotes

Privacy above all else. Some day, in the future, people will look back and remember how beautiful it once was.

When I was growing up, books took me away from my life to a solitary place that didn't feel lonely. They celebrated the outcasts, people who sat on the margins of society contemplating their interiors. . . Books were my cure for a romanticized unhappiness, for the anxiety of impending adulthood. They were all mine, private islands with secret passwords only the worthy could utter.

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

I think Anna and the King is a look at Asia from the Asian perspective, reflecting the Asian experience, which is very rare.

I suppose that's my one little secret, the secret of my success.

All the movies that I make in some ways have to be the story of my life. There are different chapters in my life.

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.

My mom was always late. It drove me crazy as a child. So I'm always on time - or early.

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.

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.

I'd always need a creative outlet. But sometimes, I do fantasize what my life would be like if I weren't famous.

If I fail, at least I will have failed my way.

The best reason to make a film is that you feel passionately about it.

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.

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.

My kids are young and my life with them is really stimulating and really full and significant.

My earliest memories are doing commercials and TV.

I've only been to Dublin once, and I had a great time. I got completely soaked because it was rainy.

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.

You guys might be surprised, but I am not Honey Boo Boo Child.

It's very important to distinguish between chemical depression that requires medication and talk therapy.

Adolescence is a tough one to be a child actor.

My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you're most ashamed of.

I want to be inspiring to myself, to my kids, my family, and my friends.

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

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.

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.

~I used to think, What if there's an interesting movie and it conflicts with the boys going to a new school for the first time?... Well, I didn't anticipate that was going to be about a two-second dilemma. I didn't know the choices would be so easy to make.~

I've worked with Neil Jordan, who I really adore. We did The Brave One [2007] together.

Part of me longs to do a job where there's not a gray area.

Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock do romantic comedies. I do dark dramas. I do these movies well.

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.

As time goes on, I will play characters who get older: I don't want to be some Botoxed weirdo.

'Taxi Driver' was the best thing that ever happened to me, and I didn't become a weirdo and squawk like a chicken.

I think "destiny" is just a fancy word for a psychological pattern.

There is no doubt that each of us is born an individual. Why is it then that so many of us die carbon copies?

Most actors don't really have a director's sensibility. They have an actor's sensibility.

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.

I want to change the system from within the system. And that means focusing and specializing.

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.

Let how you live your life stand for something, no matter how small and incidental it may seem.

In the end, winning is sleeping better.

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?

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.

I've got that Irish thing going on. Lots of Irish in my background.

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.

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.

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.