Jodie Foster Quotes

Boys are easy. I mean, there are just a lot of bruises when they're young. With boys, you get a lot of accidental jabs in the eye and stepping on your feet, and those tantrums they cause when they don't want to leave the toy store.

Jodie Foster

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• 'Downton' is one of the best jobs in the world, and I'm looking forward to the next series for Maggie Smith's wicked sense of humour.

  

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• And it's sort of an old-fashioned ER, in that it's very much about the medicine, and how these people cope. There's very little about the personal lives of the characters.

  

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• I grew up playing golf, and if I were ever good enough to play professionally, I would get to travel the world while playing a sport I love.

  

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• And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.

  

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• Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything about that.

  

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• Regulators are a backstop: they don't own banks. The governance at the top of our leading banks has been shown to be lamentably weak. No one at the top of Barclays will take responsibility for systemic abuse.

  

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• My neighborhood didn't really encourage women, though it didn't prevent women from progressing, either.

  

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• I know things aren't perfect for women in the U.K. and in America, but there are women in the rest of the world who have it far worse.

  

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• Fly-fishing is really addictive.

  

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• What really matters is who you are when you step on the field, and I will let my bat and my glove speak for themselves.

  

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• The president of the United States is not a king. You know? Barack Obama was elected by the American people.

  

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• I want to write my own stuff, and, you know, it would be nice to put myself in it. But I would like to hope that there are going to be better roles offered as well and that I don't need to do everything. You know, like, I appreciate my career being somewhat DIY, but it would be nice to get some help.

  

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• Throughout history, ambassadors have always been symbolic incarnations of the sovereignty of their nations and the dignity of their leaders.

  

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• If you're not buying recycled products, you're not really recycling.

  

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• I don't go out, so I don't get attention from girls. They're not going to have posters of me on their walls. I just try to get on with my life.

  

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• I see a New York where people who are down on their luck can get back on the road to responsibility, a job and dignity.

  

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• As long as ugly people are not on TV, you should only ever have interesting people on TV.

  

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• I have also noticed that when a rider who had confidence in his ability was defeated, after doing his level best to win, always received an ovation from the gathering.

  

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• I think when actors run away from their work that they're slightly crazy, really!

  

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• No matter how accomplished one might be in any branch of learning or art, one would have to be condemned to hell, if on where not endowed with th five cardinal virtues of Confucius-benevolence, justice, courtesy, wisdom and fidelity

  

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• We've been fighting our whole lives to say we're just human beings like everyone else. When we start separating ourselves in our work, that doesn't help the cause. I've heard it for years: 'How do you feel being a black filmmaker?' I'm not a black filmmaker, I'm a filmmaker. I'm a black man, I have black children. But I'm just a filmmaker.

  

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• When we worked together for 'Band Baaja Baaraat,' Ranveer used to be very anxious and hyper on set. He used to do weird things, but now he is calmer, less anxious. He's a better actor now.

  

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• But if two's company, three's a crowd - and that demands the omniscient point of view.

  

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• Boys are easy. I mean, there are just a lot of bruises when they're young. With boys, you get a lot of accidental jabs in the eye and stepping on your feet, and those tantrums they cause when they don't want to leave the toy store.

  

  Jodie Foster