Jodie Foster Quotes

If every play was three weeks, I'd do lots of plays. It's just the idea of six months, I think, that might drive me a bit nuts.

Often during rehearsals, I catch myself thinking, 'God, this is hard. Why am I always choosing such difficult plays to put on?'

This whole Puff Daddy thing has taken a toll on me.

Not having a private life is hard.

I don't read reviews, and it's not because I don't think I can learn something, I'm sure I could learn a lot. I just that I feel very passionately about the work and especially when you're doing theater, you really only need one director and when you read reviews, you feel like you have twelve, because you respond to them, naturally.

With every interview you feel like you lose a piece of yourself, and with every bad review you become just that little bit more bitter. It is horrible in a way.

Albums take a lot out of you.

The second album was emotionally exhausting and my life felt like it had become very serious at a very young age.

How many times do you take yourself to the brink of complete collapse? It's not a real fun place to go.

Once I started on 'Frances' I discovered it was literally a bottomless well. It devastated me to maintain that for eighteen weeks, to be immersed in this state of rage for twelve to eighteen hours a day. It spilled all over, into other areas of my life.

The fact is, when you date an artist, you have to know that they're going to sing about you.

My life is crazy sometimes.

Being away from the game you love so much, it will mess with your mind.

I was selfish and immature. I never wanted the attention. There were helicopters flying over the hospital while I was giving birth.

Do you know what prepares you for the mental hospital? Being a prime minister's wife.

If you had a fabricated story coming out every two weeks or every month, it would affect you. You would be like, 'What's the problem with people?' or 'Why can't they let me be?' And that's the thought that comes into anyone's mind.

Conducting 'Tristan' is like floating in amniotic fluid, but having worked on it for three months, I now know why people who go near it go so strange.

Having to deal with, like, family problems in front of the world is very difficult.

If this world hasn't made you semi-mad, then you ain't living in it.

We could improve worldwide mental health if we acknowledged that parents can make you crazy.

A painter can hang his pictures, but a writer can only hang himself.

People who paint, including myself, get to a point where a bit of angst comes in. If you're doing it for a living, it's worth it to suffer those slings and arrows.

Musicians have to suffer to a certain degree in order to obtain their outlet.

Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it's very shocking to the system.

I've been a performer in the public eye for many years now and it's much darker. It feels so worse now. It feels heavy; it's difficult to deal with. The hatred is unbelievable, but I actually feel a lot more compassion for the journalists and people who aren't used to that. At least on some level, it's been a part of my world for a long time, so I can handle it. I'm not going to say that I'm used to it, because I'm not. I think it's really difficult for people who are just doing journalism and receiving death threats on a very consistent basis.