Famous quotes by Jodie Foster:

"In a post-9/11 world, everybody is looking over their shoulder and wondering if the next guy is the one who is going to take you down."

"I think 'destiny' is just a fancy word for a psychological pattern."

"There's a kind of intensity that she has, and a real focus, ... I can glean from her personality that she's going to have a very long career and is going to be a very centered person. You just look at her and go, wow, this kid has really got it together, and it's just so nice to see."

"I'd like to be Dakota Fanning when I get young."

"Every time I go to leave for work he'll say, 'Are you going to be an astronaut today and find space aliens?' ... I'll say, 'No, honey. No spacesuit for me today."

"I've gone through phases of just forgiving your parents for not being as young as they used to be or not being able to do the things they could do before, and I think this film is about forgiveness. It has a real fondness and a real bitterness as well towards family members."

"It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me."

"Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable."

"Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships"

"Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from."

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

"I spent a lot of time not in school, so I didn't have deep relationships with kids my own age."

"I prefer to commit 100 per cent to a movie and make fewer films, because it takes over your life."

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

"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."

"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."

"I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies."

"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."

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

"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."