Jodie Foster Quotes
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I saw leaving college as an opportunity to do something different with my life. I always thought that becoming an academic was going to be my path.
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My mom was always late. It drove me crazy as a child. So I'm always on time - or early.
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In a weird way, that's the beauty of being an actor. You get to live out things that you're afraid of, and you get to say, 'Well, maybe I can get to the end of it and survive it intact and I can be the hero of my own story.' It's kind of a way of exorcising fear.
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I'd like to dedicate this award to all the women before me that never had the chances that I've had, the survivors, the pioneers and the outcasts. My blood, my tradition. And I'd like to thank all the people in this industry who've respected my choices and have not been afraid of the power and dignity that that entitled me to.
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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.
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I was never the ingenue or the pretty girlfriend of Tom Cruise in a movie. I didn't have that career, so I don't have to compete on that level.
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But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business was because there was Midnight Cowboy.
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I want to be inspiring to myself, to my kids, my family, and my friends.
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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.
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I don't see anyone walking around with a puppet on his hand in real life. Puppet therapy is very common for children. It's not something that adults take on.
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I think 'destiny' is just a fancy word for a psychological pattern.
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I was one of those avid moviegoers as a kid, and we didn't have video, so we went to see everything five times. I went to see every foreign film playing in my town. As times went on, I watched a lot less films. I have a different film school now. My film school now is my life experience.
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It's very hard for me to get a new car. It's really hard for me to get a new house. It's really hard for me to move on from the things that give me stability.
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I don't find acting and directing schizophrenic in any way. I find it completely easy to move between the two.
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I had a prodigious life, living in a grown-up world when I was a child. But I think my abilities were about perceptiveness, and they were about examining psychology and examining people and relationships.
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Every movie changes you. The process of making a film changes you.
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I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.
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'Silence Of The Lambs' was not something people expected me to do.
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Every movie that I've had to really knock down the door for has been an enormous success for me. Not just like a financial success but a real personal success.
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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.
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I love more than anything looking at a movie scene by scene and seeing the intention behind it. It allows you to really appreciate the hand of the filmmaker.
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I'd like to be Dakota Fanning when I get young.
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Everybody reads for me. I was never weird about that. I never minded coming in and reading. They should know if I'm the right person, and I should know if I want to do a movie.
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I'm really not a clothes person. To me, that's just work. It's the thing I hate to do the most. I don't want to be judged in that way.