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.
Jodie FosterRead
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 the margins of society contemplating their interiors. . . Books were my cure for a romanticized unhappiness, for the anxiety of impending adulthood. They were all mine, private islands with secret passwords only the worthy could utter.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Books can transport us to different worlds and provide solace, particularly during challenging times.
This quote expresses how books have the power to provide an escape and a sense of belonging for those who feel like outsiders or are grappling with their own internal struggles. Jodie Foster reflects on her childhood, illustrating how reading offered her a refuge from the anxieties of growing up and allowed her to explore the depths of her thoughts and emotions in a private space that felt special and exclusive.
Themes
BooksReadingSolitudeImaginationEscapeBelonging
In practice
Example use cases
In a speech about the importance of literature in schools, this quote would highlight the transformative power of reading.
More from Jodie Foster
All quotes →I'm not interested in being perfect when im older. Im interested in having a narrative. It's the narrative that's really the most beautiful thing about women.
Jodie FosterRead
I'm an atheist. But 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. They love it, and when they say, 'Are we Jewish?' or 'Are we Catholic?' I say, 'Well, I'm not, but you can choose when you're 18. But isn't this fun that we do seders and the Advent calendar?'
Jodie FosterRead
If I make two movies my entire life, and they're two movies that - whether they make a lot of money or two people go to see them - they speak of me, then I consider them incredibly successful. I don't need to be Steven Spielberg.
Jodie FosterRead
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 FosterRead
The best reason to make a film is that you feel passionately about it.
Jodie FosterRead
Similar quotes
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
Thornton WilderRead
When girls are educated and free to pursue their passions, they contribute more to a thriving society. When women have a voice, they raise it to demand a life that is greater than what they've been told they have a right to expect. And these demands change the future for everyone.
Melinda GatesRead
This assumption that the blue collar crowd is not supposed to read it, or a farmer in his overalls is not to read poetry, seems to be dangerous if not tragic.
Joseph BrodskyRead
Illiteracy must be banished from the land if we shall attain that high destiny as the foremost of the enlightened nations of the world which, under Providence, we ought to achieve.
William MckinleyRead
The stuff that I learned on 'Sons,' the education of how to tell stories, was part of that mythology. It's hard to look at it and go, 'Oh, if I knew this, I would have done it this way,' because the fact is I like to think that all that sort of unraveled as it was supposed to.
Kurt SutterRead
Teachers who offer you the ultimate answers do not possess the ultimate answers, for if they did, they would know that the ultimate answers cannot be given, they can only be received.
Tom RobbinsRead