Quotes by Jodie Foster

About Jodie Foster:

Alicia Christian Foster is an American actress, film director, and producer. Foster began acting in commercials at the age of three, and her first significant role came in 1976 as a child prostitute in Taxi Driver, for which she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She won an Academy Award for Best Actress in 1989, for playing a rape victim in The Accused. In 1991, she starred in The Silence of the Lambs as Clarice Starling, a gifted FBI trainee, assisting in a hunt for a serial killer. This performance received international acclaim and her second Academy Award for Best Actress. She received her third Best Actress Academy Award nomination for playing a backwoods hermit in Nell (1994). Her other best-known work includes Contact (1997), Panic Room (2002), Flightplan (2005), Inside Man (2006), The Brave One (2007) and Elysium (2013).
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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.

Jodie Foster

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

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

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

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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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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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If I make two movies my entire life, and they're two movies that - whether they make a lot of money or two people go to see them - they speak of me, then I consider them incredibly successful. I don't need to be Steven Spielberg.

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Being understood is not the most essential thing in life.

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I think every movie changes me and is life changing, especially movies you direct.

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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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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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I prefer to commit 100 per cent to a movie and make fewer films, because it takes over your life.

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

Jodie Foster

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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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.

Jodie Foster

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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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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I love European movies and I kind of grew up on European films.

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I love more than anything looking at a movie scene by scene and seeing the intention behind it.

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I just want to make movies. I really love movies. I want to be involved with them.

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Author Bio

  • NameJodie Foster
  • DescriptionAmerican actor, film director and producer
  • AliasesAlicia Christian Foster
  • BornNovember 19, 1962
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor; Film Actor; Film Director; Film Producer; Voice Actor
  • AwardsAcademy Award For Best Actress; Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award