107+ Jodie Foster Quotes (Versatile, Intense And Iconic)

Jodie Foster is an American actress, director, and producer. She is best known for her roles in films such as The Silence of the Lambs, Taxi Driver, The Accused, and The Brave One. She has won two Academy Awards, three BAFTA Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award.

Top 10 Jodie Foster Quotes

1. Part of me longs to do a job where there's not a gray area.
2. 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.
3. Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
4. I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago, back in the stone age.
5. Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships.
6. Let how you live your life stand for something, no matter how small and incidental it may seem.
7. Ninety-five percent of women's experiences are about being a victim. Or about being an underdog, or having to survive... women didn't go to Vietnam and blow things up. They are not Rambo.
8. I think Anna and the King is a look at Asia from the Asian perspective, reflecting the Asian experience, which is very rare.
9. I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.
10. The best reason to make a film is that you feel passionately about it.

Jodie Foster Short Quotes

• I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.
• But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business was because there was Midnight Cowboy.
• I am the luckiest filmmaker I know.
• I'm kind of a chatterbox and I talk really fast.
• I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.
• But now I really don't want to work unless I really, really care about a project.
• I love more than anything looking at a movie scene by scene and seeing the intention behind it.
• I've got that Irish thing going on. Lots of Irish in my background.
• I didn't grow up really wanting to be an actor. I don't remember ever not being an actor.
• I've worked with Neil Jordan, who I really adore. We did The Brave One [2007] together.

Jodie Foster Famous Quotes And Sayings

How could you ask me to believe in God when there's absolutely no evidence that I can see? I do believe in the beauty and the awe-inspiring mystery of the science that's out there that we haven't discovered yet, that there are scientific explanations for phenomena that we call mystical because we don't know any better. — 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. — Jodie Foster

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. — Jodie Foster

I've only been to Dublin once, and I had a great time. I got completely soaked because it was rainy. — 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. — Jodie Foster

I cannot believe in God when there is no scientific evidence for the existence of a supreme being and creator. — Jodie Foster

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. — 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. — Jodie Foster

Being twenty-something is all about taking it in: eating it, drinking it, and spitting out the seeds later. It's about being fearless, and stupid, and dangerous, and unfocused, and abandoned. It's about being in it, not on top of it — Jodie Foster

Well, I certainly was exposed to and learned to appreciate the work of great directors early on. As a kid, my mother used to take me to see really interesting arty films in Los Angeles. — Jodie Foster

There are lots of futurists that spend their whole life trying to figure out who we're going to be in 40, 50, 60, 100 years. That's the great thing about science fiction. — Jodie Foster

When I think about what part of my college experience came back in my work experience, I feel like it was learning how to read deeper, learning how to keep filling the movie up with more and more resonance. — Jodie Foster

Now apparently I'm told that every celebrity is expected to honour the details of their private life with a press conference, a fragrance and a prime-time reality show. — Jodie Foster

I'm an atheist. But 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. They love it, and when they say, 'Are we Jewish?' or 'Are we Catholic?' I say, 'Well, I'm not, but you can choose when you're 18. But isn't this fun that we do seders and the Advent calendar?' — Jodie Foster

Actors become actors because they loved entertaining their family by putting on the lampshade and dancing around as a kid, ... That's not my personality. For me, the fun part of making movies is seeing it as a director sees it. I like the architecture of movies. I like knowing what's coming and working to set that up. — Jodie Foster

I do think it's true that anytime somebody comes to you and says, "I'd like to be in your film," it's never good to dismiss them or make fun of them, because if they're passionate and driven enough, they very well might find a way to be in your film. — Jodie Foster

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

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? — Jodie Foster

It was a weird moment in my life and a weird experience [doing a theater]. It made me think, "Gee, I don't know if I ever want to do this again." And I love theater. I love going. I love the experience of theater. But I am not sure it's for me. — Jodie Foster

What do I do to live? What do I do to be vital? The answer is always creativity; the answer is always art. — Jodie Foster

I think I missed all of the wonderful things ... I missed the control that you have in film, and I missed getting it right, really getting it right, the way you hope people will see it. All of the things that people love about theater - the fact that it changes every night and that it's so spontaneous - all of those things just frighten me. — Jodie Foster

In the end, winning is sleeping better. — Jodie Foster

People are always surprised when I say that I'm an atheist. — Jodie Foster

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

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. — Jodie Foster

I can't imagine ever not doing [acting]. I would feel like I would have lost a limb. But I am older now, and sometimes I wonder who I would have been and what about me would have changed had I not had these experiences as a young person — Jodie Foster

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

If I fail, at least I will have failed my way. — Jodie Foster

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

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

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. — Jodie Foster

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. — Jodie Foster

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. — Jodie Foster

I'd prefer not to act in the film I'm directing. I think, though, as an actor, you do learn how to turn things on and off quickly and kind of compartmentalize. You learn to accommodate the camera and the other actors, to notice where the boom is and where you mark is, and be able to repeat something a few times. — Jodie Foster

There is no doubt that each of us is born an individual. Why is it then that so many of us die carbon copies? — Jodie Foster

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

You develop a third eye where you kind of know where they are in a room at all times but no matter how vigilant you are as a parent, at some point, you'll look around a room and can't find them and there's a searing pain that goes through your body. — Jodie Foster

If you had been a public figure from the time you were a toddler, if you'd had to fight for a life that felt real and honest and normal against all odds, than maybe to you might value privacy above all else. I have given everything up there from the time that I was three-years old. That's reality show enough, don't you think? — Jodie Foster

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. — Jodie Foster

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. — Jodie Foster

Being an artist is a way of saying, I am here, and this is what I stand for. — Jodie Foster

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. — Jodie Foster

~I used to think, What if there's an interesting movie and it conflicts with the boys going to a new school for the first time?... Well, I didn't anticipate that was going to be about a two-second dilemma. I didn't know the choices would be so easy to make.~ — Jodie Foster

Just to set the record straight, a salary for a given on-screen performance does not include the right to invade anyone’s privacy, to destroy someone’s sense of self. — Jodie Foster

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. — Jodie Foster

When I went home, my family became a little lonely family because it was just me and my mom. Part of my longing to go back to work was wanting to be surrounded by these people who were teaching me things and drinking bad coffee at three in the morning while we were lying around in a bikini in the winter. Somehow it just felt like real life. It felt more like real life than my life. — Jodie Foster

There's absolutely no sort of acknowledgment or reward for this - except for the intangible of my kids growing up to be wonderful people. — Jodie Foster

I think anybody over 30 plays parents because it happens in your thirties and so that's kind of a natural progression. But I'm definitely drawn to it. It's probably the most intense, passionate thing that happens to you as you get older. — Jodie Foster

Going back and forth between the press and something like The Crucible must be really crazy and intense. — Jodie Foster

All of the thinking and planning that you do to get there, and then, in one minute, in one second, it just doesn't matter. It goes out the window. You either got it or you didn't. There is something kind of refreshing about that. — Jodie Foster

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

I like to nap. I do like to sleep. Sometimes I sleep in between takes. — Jodie Foster

Look, it's terrible, I know, but weakness really, really bugs me, to the point that if there is a wounded bird on the sidewalk, I look at it and I go: I think I'll just kick it. — Jodie Foster

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

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. — Jodie Foster

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

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. — Jodie Foster

There are 400 billion stars out there, just in our galaxy alone. If just one out of a million of those had planets, and just one in a million of those had life, and just one out of a million of those had intelligent life, there would be literally millions of civilizations out there. — Jodie Foster

Eventually this all passes. The public horrors of today eventually blow away. And, yes, you are changed by the awful wake of reckoning they leave behind. Hopefully in the process you don't lose your ability to throw your arms in the air again and spin in wild abandon. That is the ultimate F.U. and - finally - the most beautiful survival tool of all. Don't let them take that away from you. — Jodie Foster

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

I did a couple of plays in junior high school, maybe high school, and then I did a play in college. — 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. — Jodie Foster

What the digital age has offered us, in terms of connectivity and transparency, is that all of these people from weird places in the world are all talking to each other, at four in the morning, and are sharing ideas. There's more openness than has ever been known, so that's a good thing. — Jodie Foster

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. — Jodie Foster

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

There is nothing more beautiful than finding your course as you believe you bob aimlessly in the current. And wouldn't you know that your path was there all along, waiting for you to knock, waiting for you to become. This path does not belong to your parents, your teachers, your leaders, or your lovers. Your path is your character defining itself more and more every day. — Jodie Foster

I conducted a bunch of interviews for Interview magazine. They actually paid me. I think I was probably 18 or 19. I was in college and I remember feeling, like, "Wow." I had a real job, and they paid me money, and it was exciting. — Jodie Foster

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

Definitely, there's a lot of trouble you come up against when you're acting and directing, about your performance. Sometimes it's hard to be objective about it. I will tend to get two takes and walk away. I don't belabor it, and it's important to me to have someone who says, "You know what? You should get another one, and maybe you should try it like that". — Jodie Foster

I look back at my career when I was younger and can connect what I was going through at the time with the characters I was playing. I see the similarities in them reflecting on my life. — Jodie Foster

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

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

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

When I was growing up, books took me away from my life to a solitary place that didn't feel lonely. They celebrated the outcasts, people who sat on the margins of society contemplating their interiors. . . Books were my cure for a romanticized unhappiness, for the anxiety of impending adulthood. They were all mine, private islands with secret passwords only the worthy could utter. — 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. — Jodie Foster

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

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. — Jodie Foster

I made, like, five movies while I was in college. I think they just weren't memorable movies. I've taken breaks as the years have gone on - I burn out every once in a while. — Jodie Foster

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. — Jodie Foster

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

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

I want to change the system from within the system. And that means focusing and specializing. — Jodie Foster

I don't really think I have the personality. I am not very external. I don't want to dance on the table and do impressions. So I think that the way I approach it is really loving story. That's my first love - the words. The words and the story and how to create images. I guess I come at that as a director. I think that's much more in my personality to be a director, so that's kind of informed my acting. — Jodie Foster

Interestingly, when you do films, sometimes you have conscious reasons, things that you were looking for, or stuff that you were trying to do. And then, you see the film and you think, "Wow, it ended up being something totally different!" — Jodie Foster

Privacy above all else. Some day, in the future, people will look back and remember how beautiful it once was. — Jodie Foster

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. — Jodie Foster

Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting. — Jodie Foster

Life Lessons by Jodie Foster

1. Jodie Foster's life is a testament to the power of resilience and hard work. She has overcome many obstacles in her life and career, showing us that it is possible to achieve success despite the odds.
2. Jodie Foster's story also highlights the importance of staying true to yourself and your values. She has always been open and honest about her life and her beliefs, and has never been afraid to stand up for what she believes in.
3. Finally, Jodie Foster's life is a reminder that success doesn't always come easily. She has worked hard to get where she is today, and her story shows us that with dedication and perseverance, anything is possible.