Jodie Foster Quotes

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Jodie Foster

Profession : Actress

Birth : November 19, 1962

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

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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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Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.

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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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I wish that I spoke more languages. I speak a couple languages, but not well enough to really dub myself. French is really the only one, and it's a difficult thing.

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

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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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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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In a weird way, that's the beauty of being an actor. You get to live out things that you're afraid of, and you get to say, 'Well, maybe I can get to the end of it and survive it intact and I can be the hero of my own story.' It's kind of a way of exorcising fear.

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Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable.

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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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Adolescence is a tough one to be a child actor.

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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 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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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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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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But now I really don't want to work unless I really, really care about a project.

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Being understood is not the most essential thing in life.

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