Jodie Foster Quotes

Acting, for me, is exhausting. I'm always more energized by directing. It's more intense to direct. I can pop in and express myself, then pop out again. It's a huge passion for me.

Jodie Foster

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• The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • You
  • Need
  • Last

• Being an offensive lineman, you always have the mindset of being an unsung hero - a lot of the people who look at the game follow the ball.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • People
  • Game
  • Hero

• The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • English
  • End
  • Personal

• I talk about life, and I make universal music with an American style - and that's what I do.

  

  Nas
  • Life
  • Music
  • American

• I want to be the best version of myself - intellectually, emotionally, and physically. So I like to wear clothes that I feel comfortable in, that reflect that.

  

  Gabrielle Anwar
  • Myself
  • Best
  • Clothes

• Could today's construction worker married to a clerical worker guarantee four children a college education and buy a house? That's what we're fighting about.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Children
  • Today
  • House

• The cliche of what a rock star is - there's something elitist about it. I never related to that. I'm an entertainer. I think of it as, you're performing for people. It's not a self-glorification thing.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Rock
  • Star

• God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Good
  • God
  • Evil

• It feels nice to be loved, but let me tell you there are 10 times more better looking, stylish and talented guys than me. So there's no solid reason for me to be proud! I don't think I have done anything extraordinary to change people's lives.

  

  Salman Khan
  • People
  • Done
  • Change

• We all go to the theater and cinema to be inspired and moved on an emotional level, sometimes to laughter, sometimes to tears. Once I discovered that acting could have such an effect, I was sold. It has been one of the most rewarding discoveries I have ever made.

  

  Ian Anthony Dale
  • Emotional
  • Acting
  • Inspired

• I was a very rotund child with short hair, and for some reason, I always had black ballet shoes. I was like the Wednesday Addams of ballet.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Black
  • Hair
  • Child

• I'm a fan of creating the mood and vibe with flowers, candles, and music. I love making my guests feel like it's not formal and they can relax in my home.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Music
  • Feel
  • Mood

• Pain is never permanent.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Pain
  • Never
  • Permanent

• I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • People
  • Book
  • Questions

• It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.

  

  Quintilian
  • Words
  • Child
  • First

• I beat myself up the whole time because I'm striving for something I'll basically never achieve. I portray this image of confidence, of arrogance, and it's not really me. I'm never satisfied, and I'm never content. It means I'm a bit of a mess some of the time.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Up
  • Time
  • Myself

• Often the last thing I want to do is stand up in front of 50 cameras on the red carpet. I'd rather have a cup of hot milk and an early night.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Up
  • Night
  • Red

• If you don't have public hangings for bad culture in a company, if you don't take people out and let them say, they went home to spend more time with the family. It's crazy.

  

  Jack Welch
  • People
  • Time
  • Family

• My daughter is my passion and my life.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • Life
  • Passion
  • Daughter

• There was little in my early life to indicate that an interest in biology would become the passion of my academic career. In fact, there was little to suggest I would have an academic career.

  

  Eric Kandel
  • Life
  • Career
  • Passion

• Vegetarians should have that moral basis-that a man was not born a carnivorous animal, but born to live on the fruits and herbs that the earth grows.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Live
  • Earth
  • Moral

• My makeup wasn't smeared, I wasn't disheveled, I behaved politely, and I never finished off a bottle, so how could I be alcoholic?

  

  Betty Ford
  • Makeup

• I don't care if you're Muslim or Christian or Buddhist or whatever your religion is, when you listen to a spiritual song and you really open your heart, you can feel it. You can feel the message of it. Just a simple story.

  

  Valerie June
  • Heart
  • Song
  • Simple

• Acting, for me, is exhausting. I'm always more energized by directing. It's more intense to direct. I can pop in and express myself, then pop out again. It's a huge passion for me.

  

  Jodie Foster
  • Passion