Jodie Foster quotes Her role as a prostitute in 'Taxi Driver' (1976) Born: 11/19/1962 Country: usa

• Also the theme of abandonment is a really big one for me. (Jodie Foster)
• But also, as time goes on, you realize that you are better cast for certain things more than others. (Jodie Foster) [time/more]
• But DVDs are really should be about the director. As an actor, there's only so much I can contribute really. (Jodie Foster) [director]
• But I try to do them all in French, because, you know, I - it's a big part of my personality, the French thing. (Jodie Foster) [personality/thing]
• But it's also partly that I'm picky because I am now over 40 and there's less parts so I only want to do the ones that really move me. (Jodie Foster)
• But now I really don't want to work unless I really, really care about a project. (Jodie Foster) [care]
• But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business was because there was Midnight Cowboy. (Jodie Foster) [business]
• But when you dub in France you do it with the other actors, so you're in the room with them, which is quite wonderful. And sometimes it takes on a different life of its own. (Jodie Foster) [actors/life]
• By the first week of shooting, you know exactly where your film is heading based on the psychology of your director. (Jodie Foster) [film/psychology/director]
• I am the luckiest filmmaker I know. (Jodie Foster)
• I did films because I loved making movies, and I love movies. I love the language of films and I would be just happy being a technician or a theatre director. Just to be involved with films. (Jodie Foster) [love/love/language/being]
• I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies. (Jodie Foster)
• I do almost all my movies in French. I dub them. (Jodie Foster)
• I don't know if I see myself as really an action hero, but I like doing physical movies and I like doing movies where the writing is very lean. (Jodie Foster) [action]
• I fantasize about having a manual job where I can come home at night, read a book and not feel responsible for what will happen the next day. (Jodie Foster) [housing/night/willpower/day]
• I feel funny because I have a DVD player. It's just I'm such a technophobe that I don't really know which button to push, so I've actually never listened to any of them. (Jodie Foster)
• I get really embarrassed because I was such an unattractive teenager with pimples and a funny nose. It's like someone seeing your old home movies. (Jodie Foster) [housing]
• I guess I've played a lot of victims, but that's what a lot of the history of women is about. (Jodie Foster) [women]
• I had to take my makeup off at work every night. I wasn't allowed to do it at home because my mom said that when your work day is done, you're done with work. (Jodie Foster) [take/night/housing/day]
• I have, in some ways, saved characters that have been marginalized by society by playing them - and having them still have dignity and still survive, still get through it. (Jodie Foster) [society]
• I love European movies and I kind of grew up on European films. (Jodie Foster) [love]
• I love Fincher, have known him for a long time, have wanted to work with him for ages and I followed what he does. (Jodie Foster) [love/time]
• I love more than anything looking at a movie scene by scene and seeing the intention behind it. (Jodie Foster) [love/more/movie]
• I mean, my mom took me to R rated movies when I was young and - because she knew me and knew the films well and knew that they were - they might have been provocative and they might have been serious and dramatic, but that they weren't damaging. (Jodie Foster)
• I spent a lot of time not in school, so I didn't have deep relationships with kids my own age. (Jodie Foster) [time/school/age]
• I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize. (Jodie Foster) [think/responsibility/more/complex]
• 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) [think/king/look/experience]
• 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) [think/parents/thing]
• I think it would be nice to dub some French movies occasionally or European movies just to see how an audience might react to them, to see if you could maybe get people in different parts of the country interested in foreign films. (Jodie Foster) [think/nice/people]
• I want to be inspiring to myself, to my kids, my family, and my friends. (Jodie Foster) [family]
• I went to private school and wore a uniform. I wasn't sheltered because I saw everything and knew everything. But I was raised very conservatively and it definitely didn't trick over into my own life at all. (Jodie Foster) [school/life]

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