Jodie Foster Quotes

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.

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

People say as a woman actor your career is over at 40. But then they told me I would never work again after I was 16.

Cruelty might be very human and very cultural, but it is not acceptable and it is not an option.

I absolutely love religions and the rituals. Even though I don't believe in God, we celebrate pretty much every religion in our family with the kids.

You hold all of our futures in your hands. So you better make it good.

There is no direct evidence, so how could you ask me to believe in God.

I was a literature major in college and that was my thing, books.

Where I have problems is when I am in the midst of doing something that I am completely focused on, and then I am asked to buy shoes or something.

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.

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.

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.

It's a skill that people are born with. Either you're a focuser or you're a multitasky person. I am a full-focus person.

I'm not interested in being perfect when im older. Im interested in having a narrative. It's the narrative that's really the most beautiful thing about women.

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.

When I go into the stores, I pet the saddles. Until security comes and takes me away.

I guess I've played a lot of victims, but that's what a lot of the history of women is about.

I don't find acting and directing schizophrenic, in any way. I find it completely easy to move between the two.

I want to be inspiring to myself, to my kids, my family, and my friends.

Adolescence is a tough one to be a child actor.

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

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

There is nothing in this world that I am prouder of than my ability to feel, to survive and, yes, to be a fool for what I love and believe in.

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

My mom was always late. It drove me crazy as a child. So I'm always on time - or early.

I'm kind of a chatterbox and I talk really fast.

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.

I don't think there is anything good about fame. 'Tables in restaurants.' People say that but, then again, why don't you just call the day before? Or go eat somewhere else?

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

I will always love psychology, and the basis of psychology is family.

Sometimes, you really don't understand why something is important to you until you get halfway through the movie - or maybe even all the way through.

I also feel like I've learned over the years what is not important, and that is also great: to know what is pointless to spend your energy on, to be more specific.

I love the way L A. leaves you alone. I can go home, read all day, and nobody bugs me.

You guys might be surprised, but I am not Honey Boo Boo Child.

What I didn't realize is how completely consumed I would be by my sons. I didn't know that the rest of my life would become so little a priority.

As time goes on, I will play characters who get older: I don't want to be some Botoxed weirdo.

I suppose that's my one little secret, the secret of my success.

I aspire to be able to appreciate and review a director based on their accomplishments and based on who they are and what they bring to the material, regardless of their gender.

It's very important to distinguish between chemical depression that requires medication and talk therapy.

I've worked with Neil Jordan, who I really adore. We did The Brave One [2007] together.

We think, "If I have more money, I am more valuable. If I make more money, I am more valuable." It's all sort of wound up with this problem that humans have with their failure.

I'm interested in directing movies about situations that I've lived, so they are almost a personal essay about what I've come to believe in.

Casting is a long process for me. I take a lot of time.

I didn't work very much when they were young, and I had the luxury to be able to do that. Most people can't.

I think there is something to being curious about your choices, but not wanting to kind of pierce the bubble of them, because it takes away from the act of discovering.

It's a tough trick to be able to create an intelligent movie that has socio-political commentary, and also has the emotional and moving stuff, at the same time.

a woman who struggles to recover from a brutal attack and sets out on a dark, psychological and physical journey for revenge and justice.

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.

I like dramas. I've always liked dramas. And I'm a pretty light person. I don't consider myself a very dramatic person. But I do like doing that onscreen.

Caitriona Balfe, who is Irish, is also in my movie. I asked her to play her Irish accent in the movie, but her own brogue is so faint that I had to keep pumping it up.