Quotes by Jodie Foster
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Part of me longs to do a job where there's not a gray area.
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I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.
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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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I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.
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Adolescence is a tough one to be a child actor.
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I am the luckiest filmmaker I know.
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I will always love psychology, and the basis of psychology is family.
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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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My mom was always late. It drove me crazy as a child. So I'm always on time - or early.
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Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock do romantic comedies. I do dark dramas. I do these movies well.
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As I've said before, and I still hold to, I truly am the most boring person alive. And if there was a great investigation to be found at the end of the resume, it would be, the most boring person alive.
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The movies I made when I was 14 or 15, I have a hard time looking at those. Those were the awkward years. I don't know if anybody can look at something they did when they were 14 and not wince.
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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 like to be in a different place when I make a movie so that I can't really focus on anything else, and that is your world.
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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 now I really don't want to work unless I really, really care about a project.
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I don't like the outside world to intrude when I'm making a film. I like to either see my family or work, but I don't like to go out.
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I spent a lot of time not in school, so I didn't have deep relationships with kids my own age.
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My earliest memories are doing commercials and TV.
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The best reason to make a film is that you feel passionately about it.
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I'm kind of a chatterbox and I talk really fast.
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I don't have a burning desire to act, strangely enough. I don't know that if I hadn't been an actor as a young person, I don't know that I ever would have chosen this because it's not really my personality.
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It's hard to get personal films off the ground, and it's hard developing them.
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Most actors don't really have a director's sensibility. They have an actor's sensibility.
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I'd like to be Dakota Fanning when I get young.
