Jodie Quotes & Sayings

Every movie that I've had to really knock down the door for has been an enormous success for me. Not just like a financial success but a real personal success. — Jodie Foster

The worst person to be in the celebrity Big Brother house with would be Peter Andre - cos I hate his Missus. — Jodie Marsh

She was pretty normal back then, before Simon Cowell entered her life. — Jodie Sweetin

I want to thank some very special people without whom I would not be here today. George Bush, Sarah Palin and the Pope. When I came to Hollywood in 1983, I had one dream - to sleep with Jodie Foster. That didn't work out, but this is nice, too. — Bill Maher

There are conscious reasons and unconscious reasons why I pick something. You know, I have to be moved by the story and usually that means it has to touch me in some kind of personal place. — Jodie Foster

Caitriona Balfe, who is Irish, is also in my movie. I asked her to play her Irish accent in the movie, but her own brogue is so faint that I had to keep pumping it up. — Jodie Foster

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

Auditions are an opportunity to play and go in there and bring the character to life. The writers have it stuck in their head and haven't seen it jump off the page. — Jodie Sweetin

I guess I've played a lot of victims, but that's what a lot of the history of women is about. — Jodie Foster

I like Jodie Foster and then Meryl Streep. They're just, like, the greatest ever. — Elle Fanning

Jodie Foster did it, Natalie Portman did it. I think it's entirely possible to juggle university with filming ... I actually think going to university will make me a better actress. The experience of living like that, working to deadlines, living with other students. It's all the things I want. There are actresses who don't know about things like doing their own laundry and getting a bus. I'm not going to be like that. For me, this is just the beginning. I've only shown a little bit of what I can do. There is so much more to come. — Emma Watson

I don't know why people think child actresses in particular are screwed up. I see kids everywhere who are totally bored. I've never been bored a day in my life. — Jodie Foster

You don't read many scripts, especially for crime dramas, that feature a strong woman as the central character. — Jodie Whittaker

I look back at my career when I was younger and can connect what I was going through at the time with the characters I was playing. I see the similarities in them reflecting on my life. — Jodie Foster

All of the thinking and planning that you do to get there, and then, in one minute, in one second, it just doesn't matter. It goes out the window. You either got it or you didn't. There is something kind of refreshing about that. — Jodie Foster

But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business was because there was Midnight Cowboy. — Jodie Foster

I never know what's going to move me. I'm always surprised. And it's always a mystery to the people who work with me. — Jodie Foster

Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting. — Jodie Foster

I wish people could get over the hang-up of subtitles, although at the same time, you know, that's kind of why I'm kind of pro dubbing. — Jodie Foster

But now I really don't want to work unless I really, really care about a project. — Jodie Foster

Is an egg a vegetable? — Jodie Marsh

I'm going to try and model myself after Kurt Russell and Jodie Foster. — Haley Joel Osment

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

Being twenty-something is all about taking it in: eating it, drinking it, and spitting out the seeds later. It's about being fearless, and stupid, and dangerous, and unfocused, and abandoned. It's about being in it, not on top of it — Jodie Foster

I wish that I spoke more languages. I speak a couple languages, but not well enough to really dub myself. French is really the only one, and it's a difficult thing. — Jodie Foster

My mom was always late. It drove me crazy as a child. So I'm always on time - or early. — Jodie Foster

I remember my mom saying that when I was little, I had this light that shined really big, and that she'd watched my light become very dark. — Jodie Sweetin

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

Part of me longs to do a job where there's not a gray area. — Jodie Foster

Most actors don't really have a director's sensibility. They have an actor's sensibility. — Jodie Foster

Otherness is a big thing for me. I'm always drawn to characters that live lives that I couldn't lead. — Jodie Foster

Casting is a long process for me. I take a lot of time. — Jodie Foster

I do almost all my movies in French. I dub them. — Jodie Foster

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

I notice that the number of cosmetic-surgery operations has risen by 34 per cent in the past year. Once we subtract Jordan, Jodie Marsh and Michael Jackson from those figures, we can see that demand overall may have stabilised. — Michael Gove

Adolescence is a tough one to be a child actor. — Jodie Foster

I don't find acting and directing schizophrenic in any way. I find it completely easy to move between the two. — Jodie Foster

People still watch 'Full House' all the time. It's on three times a day! — Jodie Sweetin

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

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 - all of those things just frighten me. — Jodie Foster

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

I don't direct so that I can have an identity and so I can go on to CGI movies. I had a big identity as an actor, and that's not what I'm looking for from directing. Directing is a whole different goal. — Jodie Foster

You develop a third eye where you kind of know where they are in a room at all times but no matter how vigilant you are as a parent, at some point, you'll look around a room and can't find them and there's a searing pain that goes through your body. — Jodie Foster

I avoid banks and I've never been in any sort of corporate environment at all. — Jodie Whittaker

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

I was living a complete lie. But unfortunately, guilt doesn't make you stop. — Jodie Sweetin

I can't imagine ever not doing [acting]. I would feel like I would have lost a limb. But I am older now, and sometimes I wonder who I would have been and what about me would have changed had I not had these experiences as a young person — Jodie Foster

There are lots of futurists that spend their whole life trying to figure out who we're going to be in 40, 50, 60, 100 years. That's the great thing about science fiction. — Jodie Foster

For so long I hid behind the blonde hair and the blue eyes. Now I feel like I've done it, I've done what I set out to achieve, now I can just go back to being me. — Jodie Marsh

Most men - not just the men in Brentwood - are scared of powerful women with brains. There's something in a man that makes him want to have power over a woman - whether it's in the bedroom or because they earn more money. It boosts their egos. — Jodie Marsh

Katie purred in pleasure as she licked the beating vein in Jared's neck. — Jodie B. Cooper

Going back and forth between the press and something like The Crucible must be really crazy and intense. — Jodie Foster

I'm a quiet person's nightmare - the only time I shut up is when I'm reading, because I'm a book geek. — Jodie Whittaker

Being an artist is a way of saying, I am here, and this is what I stand for. — Jodie Foster

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

I admire Jodie Foster. Her head is screwed on really well. It's not loose at all. — Thora Birch

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

I want to change the system from within the system. And that means focusing and specializing. — Jodie Foster

I'll probably pursue doing more movies, but not horror or movies with killers in them. I'll try to stick to happy movies. I want to act and direct like Jodie Foster. I admire her because she went to college and she's still doing the same thing. — Lindsay Lohan

Fox bought the rights to the book way back when, and there was this attempt by Fox to make a movie out of 'The Hot Zone,' and it tended tragically in a Hollywood disaster involving Robert Redford and Jodie Foster and Ridley Scott. But the rights have been sitting at Fox ever since. — Richard Preston

I went to football training when I was five because I think my father thought he had two boys. — Jodie Whittaker

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

As an actor, I'm attracted to drama; as a director, it's humor - because it's the story of my life, and I can't be that serious about it. Being alone is a big theme in all my movies, both as a director and as an actress. — Jodie Foster

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

I think as a pregnant woman we're all looking for stuff that makes us all look cute and fashionable and feel sexy when we're pregnant. — Jodie Sweetin

In my fifties, I was still in creation mode. Now I have more of a responsibility to step back and mentor and offer wisdom, offer sign posts on the path. — Jodie Evans

We have nothing against Communism. — Jodie Evans

After a horribly long day, I needed a mental break. I threw on my parka, with the raccoon fur around the hood, and I went to see a movie. But what to see? Something sweet and stupid and harmless. At the movie theater on Second Avenue and Twelfth, a title caught my eye. I thought, 'That seems good. Jodie Foster and a puffy, friendly farm animal, a butterfly.' I unzipped my jacket and headed inside to see a movie I'd heard the name of but knew nothing about. It was called Silence Of The Lambs. — Augusten Burroughs

When I wear a really nice and classy dress out, the papers never print it. — Jodie Marsh

Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from. — Jodie Foster

Every Iraqi would I know would rather have Saddam back ... I mean like ... that does not even take rocket science. — Jodie Evans

I didn't grow up really wanting to be an actor. I don't remember ever not being an actor. — Jodie Foster

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever. — Jodie Foster

For us, the death of Osama bin Laden is a time of profound reflection. With his death, we remember and mourn all the lives lost on September 11. We remember and mourn all the lives lost in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan. We remember and mourn the death of our soldiers. — Jodie Evans

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

Actors become actors because they loved entertaining their family by putting on the lampshade and dancing around as a kid, ... That's not my personality. For me, the fun part of making movies is seeing it as a director sees it. I like the architecture of movies. I like knowing what's coming and working to set that up. — Jodie Foster

I am only known for my boobs and tats. — Jodie Marsh

I'd like to be Dakota Fanning when I get young. — Jodie Foster

I saw leaving college as an opportunity to do something different with my life. I always thought that becoming an academic was going to be my path. — Jodie Foster

Being understood is not the most essential thing in life. — Jodie Foster

I hope to have a career like Jodie Foster, going from child to adult actress. — Evan Rachel Wood

I got sober for good on December 7, 2008. — Jodie Sweetin

I don't mind doing occasional guest appearances on shows, but I have other things I'd like to do in my life now. — Jodie Sweetin

If I fail, at least I will have failed my way. — Jodie Foster

I got to work with Cillian Murphy and my dad, Jim Broadbent and Jodie Whittaker on 'Perrier's Bounty.' It was a small part, but it was really special. — Domhnall Gleeson

You have a girlfriend?" said Brian. "You never told us."
"I'm not going to tell you now either. Don't tell Mom and Dad, don't tell Jodie, don't tell Bren."
"Why not?" said Brian. "Mom and Dad would be thrilled. Unless she's some disgusting skank leading you down a sick and twisted path. — Caroline B. Cooney

Eskimos are uncivilised because they don't have any shops. — Jodie Marsh

Both of my kids have my sense of humor - they're definitely entertaining. — Jodie Sweetin

My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you're most ashamed of. — Jodie Foster

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

I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago in the stone age — Jodie Foster

I don't see anyone walking around with a puppet on his hand in real life. Puppet therapy is very common for children. It's not something that adults take on. — Jodie Foster

I'm waiting with baited breath to hear that silver tongue of yours. — Jodie B. Cooper

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

I make dark dramas, movies about people living in desperate fear who then overcome that fear and find a heroic side to themselves. — Jodie Foster

If we continue to create a world where there is poverty and disrespect, there will continue to be terrorism. — Jodie Evans

Regret for the past is a waste of spirit for the future .... — Jodie Bain

Privacy. Someday, in the future, people will look back and remember how beautiful it once was. — Jodie Foster

I've worked with Neil Jordan, who I really adore. We did The Brave One [2007] together. — Jodie Foster

He wanted to shake her until every one of her chattering teeth hit the ground. "What the hell are you trying to say? Why did she choose me?"
Jodie eyed him warily. "Because she thinks you're stupid. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips