Jodie Foster - Best Quotes

Society

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.

Movies

The movies I made when I was 14 or 15 I have a hard time looking at those. Those were the awkward years. I don't know if anybody can look at something they did when they were 14 and not wince.

Jodie Foster

The movies I made when I was 14 or 15 I have a hard time looking at those. Those were the awkward years. I don't know if anybody can look at something they did when they were 14 and not wince.

Movies

So yes there's nothing I love more than listening to directors talk about their movies.

Jodie Foster

So yes there's nothing I love more than listening to directors talk about their movies.

Movies

I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.

Jodie Foster

I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.

Movies

I love European movies and I kind of grew up on European films.

Jodie Foster

I love European movies and I kind of grew up on European films.

Movies

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.

Jodie Foster

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.

Movies

I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.

Jodie Foster

I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.

Mom

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.

Jodie Foster

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.

Home

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.

Jodie Foster

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.

Business

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

Jodie Foster

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

Art

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

Jodie Foster

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

Loneliness

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

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.

Hot Quotes

My first love is art and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

In my world history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought who won them and who lost them – unless there is a painting a play a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Wushu is a move in Chinese a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

Rock isn't art it's the way ordinary people talk.

Tell me thy company and I'll tell thee what thou art.

Book-jacket design may become a lost art like album-cover design without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

I was very much into buying contemporary art but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it's not great art but all of a sudden my mood has changed and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters.

I did this Super-8 film at art school called 'Tissues' this black comedy about a family whose father has been arrested for child molestation. I was absolutely thrilled by every inch of it and would throw my projector in the back of my car and show it to anybody who would watch it.

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.

Author: Jodie Foster

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.

The movies I made when I was 14 or 15 I have a hard time looking at those. Those were the awkward years. I don't know if anybody can look at something they did when they were 14 and not wince.

So yes there's nothing I love more than listening to directors talk about their movies.

I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.

I love European movies and I kind of grew up on European films.

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.

I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.

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.

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.

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

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

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.