273 Quotes by Jodie Foster

As time goes on, I will play characters who get older: I don’t want to be some Botoxed weirdo.

I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago in the stone age.

As an actor, I’m attracted to drama; as a director, it’s humor – because it’s the story of my life, and I can’t be that serious about it. Being alone is a big theme in all my movies, both as a director and as an actress.

I didn’t grow up really wanting to be an actor. I don’t remember ever not being an actor.

Any actor working a long time should know how a shot is set up, where to place themselves, how to handle the lines. I’m a member of the crew, like the best boy, the electrician. What I’m good at is making eyes at the camera.

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.

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.

I didn’t work very much when they were young, and I had the luxury to be able to do that. Most people can’t.

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.