273 Quotes by Jodie Foster

I guess I’ve played a lot of victims, but that’s what a lot of the history of women is about.

All of the thinking and planning that you do to get there, and then, in one minute, in one second, it just doesn’t matter. It goes out the window. You either got it or you didn’t. There is something kind of refreshing about that.

I’ve only been to Dublin once, and I had a great time. I got completely soaked because it was rainy.

I do think it’s true that anytime somebody comes to you and says, “I’d like to be in your film,” it’s never good to dismiss them or make fun of them, because if they’re passionate and driven enough, they very well might find a way to be in your film.

Otherness is a big thing for me. I’m always drawn to characters that live lives that I couldn’t lead.

What I didn’t realize is how completely consumed I would be by my sons. I didn’t know that the rest of my life would become so little a priority.

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.

I’m really not a clothes person. To me, that’s just work. It’s the thing I hate to do the most. I don’t want to be judged in that way.

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.