Being an artist is a way of saying, I am here, and this is what I stand for.

- Jodie Foster

Cruelty might be very human, and it might be very cultural, but it's not acceptable.

- Jodie Foster

Let how you live your life stand for something, no matter how small and incidental it may seem.

- Jodie Foster

When I was growing up, books took me away from my life to a solitary place that didn't feel lonely. They celebrated the outcasts, people who sat on t…

- Jodie Foster

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

- Jodie Foster

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

- Jodie Foster

Privacy above all else. Some day, in the future, people will look back and remember how beautiful it once was.

- Jodie Foster

If I fail, at least I will have failed my way.

- Jodie Foster

I was a literature major in college and that was my thing, books.

- Jodie Foster