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I can't imagine ever not doing [acting]. I would feel like I would have lost a limb. But I am older now, and sometimes I wonder who I would have been and what about me would have changed had I not had these experiences as a young person

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Jodie Foster
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: November 19
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