I was raised with a single mom and we had a very specific, very particular relationship. She worked with me and my job. I was almost three and we traveled everywhere together and she was really in my life in a really profound way. The most significant relationship of my life. It was beautiful and also an incredible, difficult struggle.… — Jodie Foster Copy Share
I had to take my makeup off at work every night. I wasn't allowed to do it at home because my mom… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
My mom was always late. It drove me crazy as a child. So I'm always on time - or early. — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
There's absolutely no sort of acknowledgment or reward for this - except for the intangible of my kids growing up to be… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
When I went home, my family became a little lonely family because it was just me and my mom. Part of my… — 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 right, really getting it right, the way you hope people will see it. All of the things that people love about theater - the fact that it changes every night and that it's so spontaneous -… — Jodie Foster Copy Share
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