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Jodie Foster (Actor)

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.

— Jodie Foster fear

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

— Jodie Foster body

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

— Jodie Foster destiny

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

— Jodie Foster

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

— Jodie Foster man

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 humor

I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.

— Jodie Foster art

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

— Jodie Foster business

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 people

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

— Jodie Foster art

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.

— Jodie Foster world

I like to nap. I do like to sleep. Sometimes I sleep in between takes.

— Jodie Foster time

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

— Jodie Foster passion

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.

— Jodie Foster love

I think I'm drawn to films more as a director with a directorial mind even as an actor. I make movies to make the films, not to act.

— Jodie Foster mind

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

— Jodie Foster weird

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 friend

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.

— Jodie Foster life

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.

— Jodie Foster life

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.

— Jodie Foster writing

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.

— Jodie Foster life

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.

— Jodie Foster society

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 business

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 real

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.

— Jodie Foster you

Its an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. Thats always been a tug of war for me.

— Jodie Foster fear

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