Jodie Foster quotes - page 3

Everybody reads for me. I was never weird about that. I never minded coming in and reading. They should know if I'm the right person, and I should know if I want to do a movie. (Jodie Foster)
Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock do romantic comedies. I do dark dramas. I do these movies well. View quote
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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. View quote
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I am the luckiest filmmaker I know. View quote
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I like to nap. I do like to sleep. Sometimes I sleep in between takes. View quote
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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. View quote
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My earliest memories are doing commercials and TV. View quote
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I prefer to commit 100 per cent to a movie and make fewer films, because it takes over your life. View quote
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I wish people could get over the hang-up of subtitles, although at the same time, you know, that's kind of why I'm kind of pro dubbing. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. (Jodie Foster)
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. View quote
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So, yes, there's nothing I love more than listening to directors talk about their movies. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I don't find acting and directing schizophrenic, in any way. I find it completely easy to move between the two. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I'm really not a clothes person. To me, that's just work. It's the thing I hate to do the most. I don't want to be judged in that way. (Jodie Foster)
I don't have a burning desire to act strangely enough. I don't know that if I hadn't been an actor as a young person, I don't know that I ever would have chosen this because it's not really my personality. View quote
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My mom was always late. It drove me crazy as a child. So I'm always on time - or early. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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