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Jodie Foster Biography

Alicia Christian "Jodie" Foster (born November 19, 1962) is an American actress, director, and producer. Foster began her professional career as a child model when she was three years old in 1965, and two years later she moved to acting in television series, when she debuted the sitcom Mayberry R.F.D. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, she worked in several primetime television series and starred in children's films. Foster's breakthrough came with Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver (1976), in which she played a teenage prostitute and at the age of 14, received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her other critically acclaimed roles as a teenager were in the musical Bugsy Malone (1976) and the thriller The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976), and she became a popular teen idol by starring in Disney's Freaky Friday (1976), Candleshoe (1977), and Foxes (1980).

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I've got that Irish thing going on. Lots of Irish in my background.

Background, Backgrounds, Irish, Lots, Thing

How could you ask me to believe in God when there's absolutely no evidence that I can see? I do believe in the beauty and the awe-inspiring mystery of the science that's out there that we haven't discovered yet, that there are scientific explanations for phenomena that we call mystical because we don't know any better.

Believe, Discovered, Evidence, Know, Mystery, Mystical

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.

Acting, Build, Character, Driver, Eureka, Moments

I have, in some ways, saved characters that have been marginalized by society by playing them - and having them still have dignity and still survive, still get through it.

Character, Dignity, Marginalized, Saved, Society, Way

I'm kind of a chatterbox and I talk really fast.

Chatterbox, Fast, Kind, Talk

Eventually this all passes. The public horrors of today eventually blow away. And, yes, you are changed by the awful wake of reckoning they leave behind. Hopefully in the process you don't lose your ability to throw your arms in the air again and spin in wild abandon. That is the ultimate F. U. and - finally - the most beautiful survival tool of all. Don't let them take that away from you.

Air, Beautiful, Blow, Changed, Eventually, Wake

There is no doubt that each of us is born an individual. Why is it then that so many of us die carbon copies?

Born, Carbon, Doubt, Individual

Every movie changes you. The process of making a film changes you. You have to be obsessed, you have to get up at 3 in the morning and go "Wait, I have an idea!" You have to continually be drawn over and over again to deepening inside that story, and ruminating over questions: "Why would he say this to her? Why if he was standing there, would she go?" Every one of those answers has to come from some personal place, and in order to do that, you can't sit on the surface. It's such a big change that you can't really explain it to anyone else.

Continually, Film, Morning, Order, Say, Waiting

I do think it's true that anytime somebody comes to you and says, "I'd like to be in your film," it's never good to dismiss them or make fun of them, because if they're passionate and driven enough, they very well might find a way to be in your film.

Film, Fun, Make, Passionate, Says, Thinking

Adolescence is a tough one to be a child actor.

Actor, Actors, Adolescence, Child, Children, Tough

Boys are easy. I mean, there are just a lot of bruises when they're young. With boys, you get a lot of accidental jabs in the eye and stepping on your feet, and those tantrums they cause when they don't want to leave the toy store.

Boys, Eye, Mean, Tantrums, Toy

I don't know why people think child actresses in particular are screwed up. I see kids everywhere who are totally bored. I've never been bored a day in my life.

Bored, Child, Children, Kids, Think, Thinking

Look, it's terrible, I know, but weakness really, really bugs me, to the point that if there is a wounded bird on the sidewalk, I look at it and I go: I think I'll just kick it.

Bird, Sidewalk, Think, Thinking, Weakness

I was raised with a single mom and we had a very specific, very particular relationship. She worked with me and my job. I was almost three and we traveled everywhere together and she was really in my life in a really profound way. The most significant relationship of my life. It was beautiful and also an incredible, difficult struggle. I know how creative that life is, and how difficult it is to figure it out.

Beautiful, Figure, Mom, Raised, Struggle, Traveled

I absolutely love religions and the rituals. Even though I don't believe in God, we celebrate pretty much every religion in our family with the kids.

Believe, Celebrate, God, Kids, Religion

The movies I made when I was 14 or 15, I have a hard time looking at those. Those were the awkward years. I don't know if anybody can look at something they did when they were 14 and not wince.

Awkward, Hard Times, Time, Wince, Years

Being understood is not the most essential thing in life.

Essentials, Life, Thing, Things In Life, Understood

Caitriona Balfe, who is Irish, is also in my movie. I asked her to play her Irish accent in the movie, but her own brogue is so faint that I had to keep pumping it up.

Accents, Brogues, Caitriona, Keep, Movie, Play

I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago, back in the stone age.

Age, Already, Stone, Stones, Years

'Taxi Driver' was the best thing that ever happened to me, and I didn't become a weirdo and squawk like a chicken.

Chickens, Squawk, Taxi, Weirdo

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