Jodie Foster Quotes

Only one sport can subsume my life at a time.

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

The time that I devote to painting is not a lot of time, but I do it 100 percent while I am working, and then there's nothing else that counts.

I just kind of do my thing with sort of tunnel vision for the story and my role and how it fits together.

When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day.

When you're acting, it should be the most important thing that's going on. But when you're not, leave it alone.

I have always maintained that my concentration is only on my career and on nothing else.

When you are working hard, you don't have time for anything other than what you are doing in the scene and what the director wants.

When I make a movie, I completely dive into it and I can't really take anything in at all, at that time.

I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity.

I'm an all-or-nothing kind of person, and when I become interested in something, I give it my all.

There is something about giving everything to your profession. In Italian, an obsession is not necessarily negative. It's the art of putting all your energy into one thing; it's the art of transforming even what you eat for lunch into architecture.

I like to work all the time and really immerse myself in the project.

When I'm working, I'm obsessively working.

Do whatever you do intensely.

I've had three husbands, but my real romance is my work.

When it comes to my racing career I'm very driven and very selfish. People who are around me at races will know that I'm a different person here than in my personal life. I completely blank people at races. I need to be focused. I'm rude.

My job is my sport so I have to make sure that I stay focussed on it. I train almost every day so it takes up a lot of my life and you don't want to bring any new distractions into your life.

When I play, I become entirely absorbed in the game. It may be a form of concentration.

Usually I'm pretty myopic. It's hard for me to multi-task, so to speak. If I'm in a show and I'm creating a character, I'm just completely into that. It's really hard for me to do anything else like write music. I have to sort of shut down different sides of my head and just focus.

I would say that it's a lot easier, especially if you have a bit of an attention deficit disorder, to be on a movie because you can give it your all, and kill yourself for however many months, and then let it go.

I am a person who feels compelled and then gets immersed.

I'm not great at multi-tasking, so when I do one thing... I like to do it 100%.

With my writing, because I live it, I have to be consumed by it, and that means you have to forget your other life, which is constantly pulling you from your work.

I'm pretty focused on my career, and if it comes down to hanging out with somebody or learning my lines, it's gonna be learning my lines.