I didn't grow up really wanting to be an actor. I don't remember ever not being an actor. — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
Most actors don't really have a director's sensibility. They have an actor's sensibility. — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
As an actor, I'm always playing solitary characters. But as a director, I'm always making ensemble movies, which focus on lots of… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
Any actor working a long time should know how a shot is set up, where to place themselves, how to handle the… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
I'd prefer not to act in the film I'm directing. I think, though, as an actor, you do learn how to turn… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
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… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
People say as a woman actor your career is over at 40. But then they told me I would never work again… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
As an actor, I'm attracted to drama; as a director, it's humor - because it's the story of my life, and I… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
In a weird way, that's the beauty of being an actor. You get to live out things that you're afraid of, and… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
Actors become actors because they loved entertaining their family by putting on the lampshade and dancing around as a kid, ... That's… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
I think it's important that when people are struggling, that you not run away from them if you love them. Kristen, I… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
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… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
I spent a lot of time not in school, so I didn't have deep relationships with kids my own age. — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
Let how you live your life stand for something, no matter how small and incidental it may seem. — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
Look, it's terrible, I know, but weakness really, really bugs me, to the point that if there is a wounded bird on the sidewalk,… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
I want to be inspiring to myself, to my kids, my family, and my friends. — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
Well, I certainly was exposed to and learned to appreciate the work of great directors early on. As a kid, my mother used to… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
Sometimes, you really don't understand why something is important to you until you get halfway through the movie - or maybe even all the… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
I think I missed all of the wonderful things ... I missed the control that you have in film, and I missed getting it… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business was because there was Midnight Cowboy. — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
I'm a technician. I don't go for the get-into-the-role stuff. I read the lines and play the scenes. — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago in the stone age — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
