Jodie Foster Quotes About Acting

Quotes about: Acting

• Acting just happens to be my skill, but I think I would probably be just as happy being a technician or entering into the film business in some other way.

  Jodie Foster

  Thinking, Skills, Acting

  "Jodie Foster Searches for Her Child in Flightplan". MovieWeb Interview, movieweb.com. September 19, 2005.

• Acting, for me, is exhausting. I'm always more energized by directing. It's more intense to direct. I can pop in and express myself, then pop out again. It's a huge passion for me.

  Jodie Foster

  Passion, Acting, Intense

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• With 'Taxi Driver,' I had this eureka moment. I realized that acting could be much more than what I had been doing. I had to build a character that wasn't me.

  Jodie Foster

  Character, Acting, Moments

• I don't really think I have the personality. I am not very external. I don't want to dance on the table and do impressions. So I think that the way I approach it is really loving story. That's my first love - the words. The words and the story and how to create images. I guess I come at that as a director. I think that's much more in my personality to be a director, so that's kind of informed my acting.

  Jodie Foster

  First Love, Thinking, Personality

  "The Legend: Jodie Foster". Interview with Saoirse Ronan, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

• I can't imagine ever not doing [acting]. I would feel like I would have lost a limb. But I am older now, and sometimes I wonder who I would have been and what about me would have changed had I not had these experiences as a young person

  Jodie Foster

  Acting, Sometimes, Wonder

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Definitely, there's a lot of trouble you come up against when you're acting and directing, about your performance. Sometimes it's hard to be objective about it. I will tend to get two takes and walk away. I don't belabor it, and it's important to me to have someone who says, "You know what? You should get another one, and maybe you should try it like that".

  Jodie Foster

  Important, Trying, Acting

  Source: film.avclub.com

• I don't find acting and directing schizophrenic, in any way. I find it completely easy to move between the two.

  Jodie Foster

  Moving, Two, Acting

  "Jodie Foster Interview THE BEAVER; Plus an Update on Neill Blomkamp's ELYSIUM". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 6, 2011.

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