Jodie Foster Quotes

I didn't really know what I wanted to do, but I knew the woman I wanted to become.

Acting was a godsend. I found myself because I loved acting.

Going into my 20s, I was uncertain, trying to figure out what my relationship to acting is.

I don't define myself as an actor at all. Nor is that my greatest passion in life by any stretch of the imagination.

I had no idea what I wanted to be when I was 17. I just knew I wanted to be something larger than myself.

Acting is not my primary drive in life, although I'd be a very unhealthy person without it.

I'll always try to follow my heart into things I love, and modelling is not something I'm dreaming of pursuing forever.

My passion for film-making was bordering indulgence. But gone are those days when I was adventurous.

Everything evolves naturally in life. It's not limited to beauty or music. The more experience you get, the more you find out about yourself. Everything becomes more and more an expression of the real you. I can play different characters. Sometimes I feel tomboy or glam or playful. When you perform, you can convey emotions differently, and your look can reflect each of those emotions.

The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.

I always wanted to be good at something, to be somebody. The minute I got into my first play, which was called ''Excuse My Dust' - I was 17 at the time - I knew that this was what I'd been looking for.

It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A lot of people identify who they are by what they do and that's not me. It's what I do but not who I am. Who I am is a parent. I'm a family man.

For me, the magazine was always the heart of what my life was all about, and the other half was living the life.

I believe that being an actress or being involved in a movie has to be a life experience, otherwise why go for it? I have to change me, and I have to learn things, and I have to push me and my limits. By acting, I find a freedom inside of a prison in a way.

I use acting to get away from myself and to live in someone else's skin, and I do singing to get inside my own skin. I need them both for my emotional health.

You know, I don't think I had a concept of what I would be or do.

If you have to change something about you to be in a part, I don't think it's easy to do. You should just pick the part where you can just be yourself.

If I ever feel that acting is just soul-sucking and I don't want to do it anymore, I could stop.

It's 2010. I'm forty-three years old. I've just turned in the final draft of what will be my third novel when I decide I want a tattoo. Maybe it's a middle-age thing. Or maybe now that my kids are nearly grown and I have a career in place, I'm finally coming into my own.

If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am.

The business of living - that's your artwork, and the process of that is finding out who you are, what it all means.

I just need to believe that we're not in some form of stasis, that we can try to be whoever we want to be. We probably won't get there, but we might get a little bit closer, you know?

I never had the chance to consider what or how I wanted to be.

I think the more important task for a young person than developing a personal brand is figuring out what she's great at, what she loves to do, and how she can use that to leave an imprint in the world. Those are tough questions, but essential ones. Answer those - and the personal brand follows.

I've really been trying to go back to when I was 18 and rediscover the things that drove me, and my passions. How do I get back to being that strong? Because I feel like as I get older, I'm not as fearless as I was when I was 18.