Jodie Foster Quotes
I never know what's going to move me. I'm always surprised. And it's always a mystery to the people who work with me.
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If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
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I love 'Trading Places,' but 'Coming to America' has one of the things I like to do - I like the multiple characters.
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A lot of guys try to mingle with me because of who I am. If I encounter a guy with a clean heart, I will go by my instincts. I guess my man won't be from the film industry.
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I did almost two years on 'One Life to Live,' so I was thinking, 'Oh yeah, I'm an actor now.'
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Spontaneity is what travel is all about.
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That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
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I might go on discussing this subject at great length, but after all is said, done, and written, my own book of experiences will best show what these obstacles are, and how I managed to overcome them to some extent.
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There's this perception sometimes around here that I'm this Hollywood guy.
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Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.
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I've been incredibly lucky. I've worked in two iconic shows, 'Carry On' and 'EastEnders.' If it all ended tomorrow - and it could - I'd just be terribly grateful. I've been fortunate enough to do what I love and get paid for it.
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Fighting is easy to understand. You just hit the guy as hard as you can.
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Romy and I, we're learning how to share the xx with people who aren't in the xx.
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If you look at the carrying capacity of agricultural areas throughout the world, their ecological habitats are changing. So I think we're looking at - in our lifetime - great collapses of food services.
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I hate going to bed. I read scripts, clean, listen to the radio - I've fallen asleep to 'This American Life' more times than I can count!
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As Trotsky didn't exactly say, you may not be interested in electronic snoops, but snoops are interested in you, whether or not you keep Coke's secret recipe on your iPhone.
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I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
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My folks are in Jersey. And I have a lot of friends and other family there. So, I try to visit as much as possible.
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My team and I have reunited two elements that coexist with difficulty: respect and affection, because when they love you they don't respect you and when they respect you they don't love you.
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I found my first novel difficult. I don't want to make it sound like it's any more difficult than driving a cab or going to any other job, but there are so many opportunities for self-doubt, that you just kind of need to soldier on.
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Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
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To get a horse to hit a mark without a rider, to get it to stand up, to get it to rear, to get it to pick up a bucket and bring it over is amazing. It's hard work and very rewarding but can be dangerous.
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I never know what's going to move me. I'm always surprised. And it's always a mystery to the people who work with me.
