Jodie Foster
Jodie Foster
Alicia Christian "Jodie" Foster is an American actress, director and producer who has worked in films and on television. She has often been cited as one of the best actresses of her generation. Foster began her career at the age of three as a child model in 1965, and two years later moved to acting in television series, with the sitcom Mayberry R.F.D. being her debut. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, she worked in several primetime television series...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActress
Date of Birth19 November 1962
CountryUnited States of America
I think 'destiny' is just a fancy word for a psychological pattern.
Ninety-five percent of women's experiences are about being a victim. Or about being an underdog, or having to survive... women didn't go to Vietnam and blow things up. They are not Rambo.
I guess I've played a lot of victims, but that's what a lot of the history of women is about.
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.
I like to nap. I do like to sleep. Sometimes I sleep in between takes.
Most actors don't really have a director's sensibility. They have an actor's sensibility.
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.
If I make two movies my entire life, and they're two movies that - whether they make a lot of money or two people go to see them - they speak of me, then I consider them incredibly successful. I don't need to be Steven Spielberg.
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.
People say as a woman actor your career is over at 40. But then they told me I would never work again after I was 16.
When I go into the stores, I pet the saddles. Until security comes and takes me away.
People are always surprised when I say that I'm an atheist.
I am the luckiest filmmaker I know.
Otherness is a big thing for me. I'm always drawn to characters that live lives that I couldn't lead.