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
Jodie Foster quotes about
I don't make movies because I love to act. I make movies because I like to make movies, and I like to be a part of that process.
You have to make a big effort to try to have a life, and that's important to you only if you spent your entire childhood not having one,
I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago in the stone age
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
When I was growing up, books took me away from my life to a solitary place that didn't feel lonely. They celebrated the outcasts, people who sat on the margins of society contemplating their interiors. . . Books were my cure for a romanticized unhappiness, for the anxiety of impending adulthood. They were all mine, private islands with secret passwords only the worthy could utter.
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
Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships.
Being an artist is a way of saying, I am here, and this is what I stand for.
It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.
There is nothing more beautiful than finding your course as you believe you bob aimlessly in the current. And wouldn't you know that your path was there all along, waiting for you to knock, waiting for you to become. This path does not belong to your parents, your teachers, your leaders, or your lovers. Your path is your character defining itself more and more every day.
I'd like to be Dakota Fanning when I get young.
It's a skill that people are born with. Either you're a focuser or you're a multitasky person. I am a full-focus person.
Privacy. Someday, in the future, people will look back and remember how beautiful it once was.
Being understood is not the most essential thing in life.