273 Quotes by Jodie Foster

My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you’re most ashamed of.

I think an artist’s responsibility is more complex than people realize.

I don’t think there is anything good about fame. ‘Tables in restaurants.’ People say that but, then again, why don’t you just call the day before? Or go eat somewhere else?

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.

I’m interested in directing movies about situations that I’ve lived, so they are almost a personal essay about what I’ve come to believe in.

Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it’s not acceptable.

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.

Part of me longs to do a job where there’s not a gray area.

There’s absolutely no sort of acknowledgment or reward for this – except for the intangible of my kids growing up to be wonderful people.