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Jodie Foster Inspirational Quotes (83)

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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 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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But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business was because there was Midnight Cowboy.
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There is no doubt that each of us is born an individual. Why is it then that so many of us die carbon copies?
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The best reason to make a film is that you feel passionately about it.
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I like dramas. I've always liked dramas. And I'm a pretty light person. I don't consider myself a very dramatic person. But I do like doing that onscreen.
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My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you're most ashamed of.
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I'm not interested in being perfect when im older. Im interested in having a narrative. It's the narrative that's really the most beautiful thing about women.
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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.
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I think Anna and the King is a look at Asia from the Asian perspective, reflecting the Asian experience, which is very rare.
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I suppose that's my one little secret, the secret of my success.
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I was a literature major in college and that was my thing, books.
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All the movies that I make in some ways have to be the story of my life. There are different chapters in my life.
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I don't know why people think child actresses in particular are screwed up. I see kids everywhere who are totally bored. I've never been bored a day in my life.
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'Taxi Driver' was the best thing that ever happened to me, and I didn't become a weirdo and squawk like a chicken.
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Being twenty-something is all about taking it in: eating it, drinking it, and spitting out the seeds later. It's about being fearless, and stupid, and dangerous, and unfocused, and abandoned. It's about being in it, not on top of it
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I cannot believe in God when there is no scientific evidence for the existence of a supreme being and creator.
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I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago, back in the stone age.
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I'd prefer not to act in the film I'm directing. I think, though, as an actor, you do learn how to turn things on and off quickly and kind of compartmentalize. You learn to accommodate the camera and the other actors, to notice where the boom is and where you mark is, and be able to repeat something a few times.
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Adolescence is a tough one to be a child actor.
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I love European movies and I kind of grew up on European films.
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So, yes, there's nothing I love more than listening to directors talk about their movies.
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I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.
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I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.
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