Jodie Foster Quotes

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Jodie Foster

Profession : Actress

Birth : November 19, 1962

Boys are easy. I mean, there are just a lot of bruises when they're young. With boys, you get a lot of accidental jabs in the eye and stepping on your feet, and those tantrums they cause when they don't want to leave the toy store.

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'Silence Of The Lambs' was not something people expected me to do.

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

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

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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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I feel at various times in my life that I've been at a point where I had to choose between a death sentence and a life sentence. And I want to live. What do I do to live? What do I do to be vital? And the answer is always creativity. The answer is always art.

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But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business was because there was Midnight Cowboy.

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By the first week of shooting, you know exactly where your film is heading based on the psychology of your director.

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I am the luckiest filmmaker I know.

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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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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.

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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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I had to take my makeup off at work every night. I wasn't allowed to do it at home because my mom said that when your work day is done, you're done with work.

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I have, in some ways, saved characters that have been marginalized by society by playing them - and having them still have dignity and still survive, still get through it.

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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 spent a lot of time not in school, so I didn't have deep relationships with kids my own age.

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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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