Jodie Foster movie quotes

- Meg Altman: Get out of my house!
- Sarah Altman: Say fuck!
- Meg Altman: Fuck!
- Sarah Altman: Mom! "Get the fuck out of my house!".
- Meg Altman: Get the fuck out of my house!

Jodie Foster - Meg Altman
Kristen Stewart - Sarah Altman

“- Anna Leonowens: I would like to know why, if science can unravel something as beautiful as music... why it cannot posit a solution for a schoolteacher and a king.
- King Mongkut: The manner in which people might understand such new possibilities is also process of evolution.
- Anna Leonowens: Everything in Siam has its own time.”

Jodie Foster - Anna
Chow Yun-Fat - King Mongkut

“All I'm asking is for you to just have the tiniest bit of vision. You know, to just sit back for one minute and look at the big picture. To take a chance on something that just might end up being the most profoundly impactful moment for humanity, for the history... of history.”

Jodie Foster - Eleanor Arroway

“- Pilcher: What do you do when you're not detecting, Agent Starling?
- Clarice Starling: I try to be a student, Dr. Pilcher.
- Pilcher: Ever go out for cheeseburgers and beer? The amusing house wine?
- Clarice Starling: Are you hitting on me, doctor?
- Pilcher: Yes.”
Paul Lazar - Pilcher
Jodie Foster - Clarice Starling

“- Palmer Joss: What are you studying up there?
- Ellie Arroway: Oh, the usual. Nebulae, quasars, pulsars, stuff like that. What are you writing?
- Palmer Joss: The usual. Nouns, adverbs, adjective here and there.”
Matthew McConaughey - Palmer Joss
Jodie Foster - Eleanor Arroway

“Life is precious, especially if you're a Christian and only allowed to have one.”

Jodie Foster - Anna

“- Bret Maverick: I've only got one gun, that's 6 bullets. They're six, that's 36 bullets. Maybe they've got two guns, that's 72 bullets, maybe they've got rifles...
- Annabelle Bransford: You're babbling.
- Bret Maverick: No I wasn't.”
Mel Gibson - Bret Maverick
Jodie Foster - Annabelle Bransford

“I always believed that fear belonged to other people. Weaker people. It never touched me. And then it did. And when it touches you, you know... that it's been there all along. Waiting beneath the surfaces of everything you loved.”
Jodie Foster - Erica Bain

“What's more likely? That an all-powerful, mysterious God created the Universe, and decided not to give any proof of his existence? Or, that He simply doesn't exist at all, and that we created Him, so that we wouldn't have to feel so small and alone?”
Jodie Foster - Eleanor Arroway

“- Tuptim: How did Mem survive?
- Anna Leonowens: The same way you will. One awful day at a time.”
Bai Ling - Tuptim
Jodie Foster - Anna

“- Clarice Starling: I didn't get more than a few miles when the sheriff's car picked me up. The rancher was so angry he sent me to live at the Lutheran orphanage in Bozeman. I never saw the ranch again.
- Dr. Hannibal Lecter: What became of your lamb, Clarice?
- Clarice Starling: They killed him.”

Jodie Foster - Clarice Starling
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Dr. Hannibal Lecter

“- Bret Maverick: Oh shut up. I don't want to go to bed with you, lady.
- Annabelle Bransford: Why not?
- Bret Maverick: Why not? I'd be too frightened. God knows what parts of me you'd steal. I'd wake up with all sorts of things missing.”

Mel Gibson - Bret Maverick
Jodie Foster - Annabelle Bransford

“Most people do not see the world as it is. They see it as they are.”
Jodie Foster - Anna

“- Dr. Hannibal Lecter: How do we begin to covet, Clarice? Do we seek out things to covet? Make an effort to answer now.
- Clarice Starling: No. We just...
- Dr. Hannibal Lecter: No. We begin by coveting what we see every day. Don't you feel eyes moving over your body, Clarice? And don't your eyes seek out the things you want?”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Dr. Hannibal Lecter
Jodie Foster - Clarice Starling

- Panel member: If you were to meet these Vegans, and were permitted only one question to ask of them, what would it be?
- Ellie Arroway: Well, I suppose it would be, "How did you do it? How did you evolve, how did you survive this technological adolescence without destroying yourself?".
Jodie Foster - Eleanor Arroway

“What the hell are you talking about? You saw me at the hospital, what you think I asked for that? Is that what you think? If that's what you think then you get the fuck out of my house!”

Jodie Foster - Sarah Tobias

“- Anna Leonowens: My mind has taken me down many roads of late. All of which lead absolutely nowhere. What would Buddha say of that?
- King Mongkut: That roads are for journeys, ma'am, not destinations.”
Jodie Foster - Anna
Chow Yun-Fat - King Mongkut

“- David Drumlin: One... there is intelligent life out there, but you'll never contact it in your lifetime, and two... two! There's nothing out there but noble gases and carbon compounds, and you're wasting your time. In the meantime, you won't be published, you won't be taken seriously and your career will be over before it's begun!
- Ellie...” (continue)(continue reading)
Tom Skerritt - David Drumlin
Jodie Foster - Eleanor Arroway

“- Jack Crawford: I remember you from my seminar at UVA. You grilled me pretty hard, as I recall, on the bureau's civil rights record in the Hoover years. I gave you an A.
- Clarice Starling: A-minus, Sir.”
Scott Glenn - Jack Crawford
Jodie Foster - Clarice Starling

“- King Mongkut: Gazing at the moon?
- Anna Leonowens: Yes, it is beautiful.
- King Mongkut: As the sun rises, she will surrender the night, but she is always with him, even when he cannot see her.
- Anna Leonowens: It must be a great comfort to him.”
Chow Yun-Fat - King Mongkut
Jodie Foster - Anna

“- Meg Altman: This whole thing makes me nervous.
- Lydia Lynch: Why?
- Meg Altman: Ever read any Poe?
- Lydia Lynch: No, but I loved her last album!”

Jodie Foster - Meg Altman
Ann Magnuson - Lydia Lynch

“It's like you're saying that science killed God. What if science simply revealed that He never existed in the first place?”

Jodie Foster - Eleanor Arroway

“- Clarice Starling: He won't come after me.
- Ardelia Mapp: Oh really?
- Clarice Starling: He won't. I can't explain it... he... he would consider that rude.”

Jodie Foster - Clarice Starling
Kasi Lemmons - Ardelia Mapp

Annie, she said she wanted to be buried right in the ground under a pear tree. Really. Not in a box or anything. She said she wanted the roots going right through her, and each year, we'd come along, take a pear, and go "Hey, Annie's tasting good this year, huh?"
Jodie Foster - Jeanie

“Back in the heavy stoned days, when we used to stay up and talk a lot, Annie and me, we were talking about dying, how it feels and all. I said I'd never get buried. I couldn't stand them shoveling dirt in my face.”
Jodie Foster - Jeanie