Jodie Foster Biography

On work:

"I'd like to be Dakota Fanning when I get young."

"If my movie is coming out, I go to the premiere, but I don't do that whole thing. I love my job, but I don't need to continue working after six. I have been working since I was three years old."

"You have to make a big effort to try to have a life, and that's important to you only if you spent your entire childhood not having one.”

On family:

"What I didn't realize is how completely consumed I would be by my sons. I didn't know that the rest of my life would become so little a priority."

"Motherhood doesn't mean I don't have a creative side that I need to nourish. It doesn't mean I don't have independence from them. I'd be a crazy person if I didn't."

On her state of mind:

"As time goes on, I will play characters who get older: I don't want to be some Botoxed weirdo."

"It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me."