Jodie Foster Quotes
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.
Jodie Foster
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
Oriana Fallaci
During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my personal political agenda on anyone.
Questlove
It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It's dramatic, it's interesting, and I think it's something we can all identify with to a degree.
Beau Willimon
There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.
Paloma Faith
Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a house should.
Dan Hill
For years, Judaism has been a sort of product put on the religious shelf, and on holidays, we would take it off the shelf and let seculars play with it for a bit. Now, Judaism is going back to being something that more closely touches everyone.
Yair Lapid
My host at Richmond, yesterday morning, could not sufficiently express his surprise that I intended to venture to walk as far as Oxford, and still farther. He however was so kind as to send his son, a clever little boy, to show me the road leading to Windsor.
Karl Philipp Moritz
Personality is everything that's false in a human: everything that's been added on to him and contrived.
Sam Shepard
Basketball paid for four years of my education, and I am so proud of that.
Ramon Rodriguez
For me, I am left leaning when it comes to health and education, on the right when it comes to defense. So I don't know where I come on the political spectrum. And I think this the challenge that a lot of Jordanians have to deal with.
Abdullah II of Jordan
We all understand it's a privilege just to be playing in this league.
Calvin Johnson
Around 14, I was turned on to Shania, Reba, Merle Haggard, Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood... and I've followed it ever since.
Laura Bell Bundy
The first thing I look at with a project isn't who's directing, whether it's a big film; it's the character and whether I want to tell her story.
Ophelia Lovibond
The prince in 'The Leopard' was a very complex character - at times autocratic, rude, strong - at times romantic, good, understanding - and sometimes even stupid, and above all, mysterious.
Luchino Visconti
In order for a narrative to work, the primary character should have a concrete desire - a need that drives her story - and the story's writer should make this goal known to the reader pretty early in the narrative.
Darin Strauss
To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably.
William Ellery Channing
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.
Jodie Foster
