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Jodie Foster Quotes

I make movies about people in spiritual crisis because it's a way for me to spend the time, the energy, the focus and the obsession to come to terms with my own spiritual crisis.

Jodie Foster

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: american
Birth: November 19, 1962

Topics

Time Focus Spiritual People Me Way

I never told my kids, 'You've got to work hard.' I just worked hard, and they followed my example.

Maye Musk

Work Work Hard You Never Hard Kids

Overspending is as certain a part of the holiday season as overeating. But pushing away from both the table and the cash register at least a little bit sooner can make the post-holiday hangover hurt a little bit less.

Jeffrey Kluger

Hurt Holiday Table Little Cash Away

I guess I sort of got bullied in high school but no more than anyone else. I felt like everyone was weird or different.

Michael J. Willett

School High School Weird More High

In writing for movies, you obviously want to resolve things and have a sense of completion at the end - in an ideal way.

Mitch Glazer

Writing End You Want Movies Way

It's weird, you know? I didn't really envision my future, but I'm pretty happy with how it's turned out.

Chloe Gosselin

Future Happy Weird You Know Out

Henry Kissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized and excluded.

Christopher Hitchens

Door Face Person Decent Shut Should

Because if I don't know my lines, I really don't know what I'm doing.

Christopher Walken

Doing Know Lines Because Really

They were written on cheap blue notebooks bought by poor women. I'm interested in folk tales in the way that medicine and magic in women's stories are all kind of combined.

Alice Hoffman

Women Blue Medicine Magic Kind Way

I really learned that, when I got into television, I really learned the power, how deeply it affects people to see themselves on television, to see something that they can relate to, that they feel is like them in some way; people feel validated. Its not a little thing. It really means a lot to people. It actually can change people.

Winnie Holzman

Change Power People Feel Television

I'm very much a creative person, but you've got to do the follow-through. A lot of people start out with an exciting thing and they want to take over the world, but really the people who do take over the world have a good plan of how to get there and the steps along the way.

Pete Cashmore

Good Creative People World Start

I read like an animal. I read under the covers, I read lying in the grass, I read at the dinner table. While other people were talking to me, I read.

Nicole Krauss

Animal People Me Dinner Talking

The world is getting smaller. And people are bumping up against people from different parts of the world with very different points of view. The challenge of our time is going to be, how do you allow other points of view to exist within what you traditionally see as your world?

Kumail Nanjiani

Time Challenge People World View Up