Top 120 Jodie Foster Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “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.”

— Jodie Foster

52. “We think, “If I have more money, I am more valuable. If I make more money, I am more valuable.” It’s all sort of wound up with this problem that humans have with their failure.”

— Jodie Foster

53. “But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business was because there was Midnight Cowboy.”

— Jodie Foster

54. “When I think about what part of my college experience came back in my work experience, I feel like it was learning how to read deeper, learning how to keep filling the movie up with more and more resonance.”

— Jodie Foster

55. “I don’t like it when reviews aren’t about the movie. When they’re about how much money somebody made, or who they’re sleeping with, or if they got the job via some connection, or about how Fox is putting X amount of dollars into it.”

— Jodie Foster

56. “With ‘Taxi Driver,’ I had this eureka moment. I realized that acting could be much more than what I had been doing. I had to build a character that wasn’t me.”

— Jodie Foster

57. “You guys might be surprised but I am not Honey Boo Boo Child.”

— Jodie Foster

58. “Now, apparently, Im told that every celebrity is expected to honor the details of their private life with a press conference, a fragrance, and a prime-time reality show.”

— Jodie Foster

59. “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.”

— Jodie Foster

60. “I was one of those avid moviegoers as a kid, and we didn’t have video, so we went to see everything five times. I went to see every foreign film playing in my town. As times went on, I watched a lot less films. I have a different film school now. My film school now is my life experience.”

— Jodie Foster

61. “Casting is a long process for me. I take a lot of time.”

— Jodie Foster

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

— Jodie Foster

63. “I love the way L A. leaves you alone. I can go home, read all day, and nobody bugs me.”

— Jodie Foster

64. “It’s a tough trick to be able to create an intelligent movie that has socio-political commentary, and also has the emotional and moving stuff, at the same time.”

— Jodie Foster

65. “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.”

— Jodie Foster

66. “Adolescence is a tough one to be a child actor.”

— Jodie Foster

67. “It’s very important to distinguish between chemical depression that requires medication and talk therapy.”

— Jodie Foster

68. “Acting, for me, is exhausting. I’m always more energized by directing. It’s more intense to direct. I can pop in and express myself, then pop out again. It’s a huge passion for me.”

— Jodie Foster

69. “I think Anna and the King is a look at Asia from the Asian perspective, reflecting the Asian experience, which is very rare.”

— Jodie Foster

70. “Being an artist is a way of saying, I am here, and this is what I stand for.”

— Jodie Foster

71. “I was a literature major in college and that was my thing, books.”

— Jodie Foster

72. “The best reason to make a film is that you feel passionately about it.”

— Jodie Foster

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

— Jodie Foster

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

— Jodie Foster

75. “I spent a lot of time not in school, so I didn’t have deep relationships with kids my own age.”

— Jodie Foster

76. “So, yes, there’s nothing I love more than listening to directors talk about their movies.”

— Jodie Foster

77. “People say as a woman actor your career is over at 40. But then they told me I would never work again after I was 16.”

— Jodie Foster

78. “Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock do romantic comedies. I do dark dramas. I do these movies well.”

— Jodie Foster

79. “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.”

— Jodie Foster

80. “I conducted a bunch of interviews for Interview magazine. They actually paid me. I think I was probably 18 or 19. I was in college and I remember feeling, like, “Wow.” I had a real job, and they paid me money, and it was exciting.”

— Jodie Foster

81. “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.”

— Jodie Foster

82. “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?”

— Jodie Foster

83. “I like dramas. I’ve always liked dramas. And I’m a pretty light person. I don’t consider myself a very dramatic person. But I do like doing that onscreen.”

— Jodie Foster

84. “I had a prodigious life, living in a grown-up world when I was a child. But I think my abilities were about perceptiveness, and they were about examining psychology and examining people and relationships.”

— Jodie Foster

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

— Jodie Foster

86. “I did a couple of plays in junior high school, maybe high school, and then I did a play in college.”

— Jodie Foster

87. “You hold all of our futures in your hands. So you better make it good.”

— Jodie Foster

88. “I want to be inspiring to myself, to my kids, my family, and my friends.”

— Jodie Foster

89. “I think anybody over 30 plays parents because it happens in your thirties and so that’s kind of a natural progression. But I’m definitely drawn to it. It’s probably the most intense, passionate thing that happens to you as you get older.”

— Jodie Foster

90. “I made, like, five movies while I was in college. I think they just weren’t memorable movies. I’ve taken breaks as the years have gone on – I burn out every once in a while.”

— Jodie Foster

91. “I also feel like I’ve learned over the years what is not important, and that is also great: to know what is pointless to spend your energy on, to be more specific.”

— Jodie Foster

92. “Acting just happens to be my skill, but I think I would probably be just as happy being a technician or entering into the film business in some other way.”

— Jodie Foster

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

— Jodie Foster

94. “I’ve got that Irish thing going on. Lots of Irish in my background.”

— Jodie Foster

95. “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.”

— Jodie Foster

96. “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.”

— Jodie Foster

97. “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.”

— Jodie Foster

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98. “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.”

— Jodie Foster

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99. “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.”

— Jodie Foster

100. “There is no doubt that each of us is born an individual. Why is it then that so many of us die carbon copies?”

— Jodie Foster