Top 120 Jodie Foster Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “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.”

— Jodie Foster

52. “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

53. “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

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

— Jodie Foster

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

— Jodie Foster

56. “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

57. “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

58. “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

59. “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

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

— Jodie Foster

61. “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

62. “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

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

— Jodie Foster

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

— Jodie Foster

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

— Jodie Foster

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

— Jodie Foster

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

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

— Jodie Foster

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

— Jodie Foster

71. “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

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

— Jodie Foster

73. “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

74. “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

75. “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

76. “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

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

— Jodie Foster

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

— Jodie Foster

79. “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

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

— Jodie Foster

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

— Jodie Foster

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

— 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. “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

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

— Jodie Foster

88. “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

89. “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

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

— Jodie Foster

91. “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

92. “If I make two movies my entire life, and they’re two movies that – whether they make a lot of money or two people go to see them – they speak of me, then I consider them incredibly successful. I don’t need to be Steven Spielberg.”

— Jodie Foster

93. “I’d always need a creative outlet. But sometimes, I do fantasize what my life would be like if I weren’t famous.”

— Jodie Foster

94. “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

95. “When I go into the stores, I pet the saddles. Until security comes and takes me away.”

— Jodie Foster

96. “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

97. “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

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

— Jodie Foster

99. “I don’t find acting and directing schizophrenic in any way. I find it completely easy to move between the two.”

— Jodie Foster

100. “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