Jodie Foster Quotes

I just didn't work that much while the kids were growing up.

Everyone is encouraged to see their lives, the world through the eyes of the rich.

My kids are the offspring of people who are doing reasonably well and live in the centre of London and the chances are they're going to turn out ghastly anyway. Who's to say they shouldn't have a walk-in wardrobe and possibly a stylist from the age of four?

To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it.

I don't believe in simply accumulating money, but I have the luxury to say that, because I have enough for all my needs.

I am fairly rich. Money's very handy, let's face it.

Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.

When I was a child, I didn't fly - we couldn't afford to fly. Flying was for rich people.

You can't tell a millionaire's son from a billionaire's.

I can't cultivate a relationship with my child if it's between takes. I tried that on a movie and realized, 'This is not going to work.' It will work some of the year, but not 12 months a year.

Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.

I've had people ask me in interviews what it's like to have money, but that's not how it is. I have a middle-class life. I have a room in London but not a house, nor a BMW.

Perhaps they do not recognize themselves, for a rich man is even harder to define than a poor one.

I come from a background where money has never been an issue.

I had the opportunity to be around my kids a lot. I guess I could have kept working, but I had them when I was 47. You only get to see all this stuff once. I just chose to work at home and watch them.

I did make a choice when I got away from baseball to be there to get my kids off to college.

Well, I took a sabbatical. I walked away from shooting movies because I couldn't handle the travel. I'm a single parent. I had young kids, and I found that keeping in touch with them from hotel rooms and airports wasn't working for me. So I stopped.

I chose to be a working wife and mother. Why should I compromise on either?

There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.

I've never been a hands-on dad. I'm not ashamed to admit it, but you can't run a restaurant and be home for tea at 4:30 and bath and change nappies.

Money doesn't buy class.

I'm enjoying the money, the big house, the cars; what ghetto kid wouldn't?

The affluent society makes no meaningful distinction between luxury and necessity.

I wanted to get rich, like anyone from my background.

I grew up upper middle class.