Jodie Foster Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Being an artist is a way of saying, I am here, and this is what I stand for.”
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“Sometimes, you really don't understand why something is important to you until you get halfway through the movie - or maybe even all the way through.”
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“I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago in the stone age”
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“I think there is something to being curious about your choices, but not wanting to kind of pierce the bubble of them, because it takes away from the act of discovering.”
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“Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting.”
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“Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships.”
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“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.”
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“I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.”
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“Being understood is not the most essential thing in life.”
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“Privacy. Someday, in the future, people will look back and remember how beautiful it once was.”
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“My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you're most ashamed of.”
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“~I used to think, What if there's an interesting movie and it conflicts with the boys going to a new school for the first time?... Well, I didn't anticipate that was going to be about a two-second dilemma. I didn't know the choices would be so easy to make.~”
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“The best reason to make a film is that you feel passionately about it.”
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“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.”
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“I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.”
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“I'd like to be Dakota Fanning when I get young.”
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“I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.”
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“Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable.”
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“There is no doubt that each of us is born an individual. Why is it then that so many of us die carbon copies?”
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“Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock do romantic comedies. I do dark dramas. I do these movies well.”
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“Most actors don't really have a director's sensibility. They have an actor's sensibility.”
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“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.”
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“Everybody reads for me. I was never weird about that. I never minded coming in and reading. They should know if I'm the right person, and I should know if I want to do a movie.”
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“'Taxi Driver' was the best thing that ever happened to me, and I didn't become a weirdo and squawk like a chicken.”
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“Boys are easy. I mean, there are just a lot of bruises when they're young. With boys, you get a lot of accidental jabs in the eye and stepping on your feet, and those tantrums they cause when they don't want to leave the toy store.”
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“As I've said before, and I still hold to, I truly am the most boring person alive. And if there was a great investigation to be found at the end of the resume, it would be, the most boring person alive.”
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“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.”
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