Jodie Foster
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"Alicia Christian Foster", known professionally as "Jodie Foster", is an American actress, film director, and producer. Foster began acting in commercials at the age of three, and her first significant role came in 1976 as a child prostitute in Taxi Driver, for which she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She won an Academy Award for Best Actress in 1989, for playing a rape victim in The Accused (1988 film)/The Accused. In 1991, she starred in The Silence of the Lambs (film)/The Silence of the Lambs as Clarice Starling, a gifted Federal Bureau of Investigation/FBI trainee, assisting in a hunt for a serial killer. This performance received international acclaim and her second Academy Award for Best Actress. She received her third Best Actress Academy Award nomination for playing a backwoods hermit in Nell (film)/Nell (1994). Her other best-known work includes Contact (1997 US film)/Contact (1997), Panic Room (2002), Flightplan (2005), Inside Man (2006) and The Brave One (2007 film)/The Brave One (2007).

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I've gone through phases of just forgiving your parents for not being as young as they used to be or not being able to do the things they could do before, and I think this film is about forgiveness. It has a real fondness and a real bitterness as well towards family members.

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

Every time I go to leave for work he'll say, 'Are you going to be an astronaut today and find space aliens?' ... I'll say, 'No, honey. No spacesuit for me today.

Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.

There's a kind of intensity that she has, and a real focus, ... I can glean from her personality that she's going to have a very long career and is going to be a very centered person. You just look at her and go, wow, this kid has really got it together, and it's just so nice to see.

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

Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships.

I think 'destiny' is just a fancy word for a psychological pattern.

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.

In a post-9/11 world, everybody is looking over their shoulder and wondering if the next guy is the one who is going to take you down.