Jodie Foster

He held me horizontally and then flipped me around and shook me.

So I watched the entire film crew run in the opposite direction, sideways.

I don't know.

It's moved on, but, you know, it's the same old me.

And I'm always so happy to be on NPR because I'm such an NPR fan and such an NPR head.

Yeah.

My mom, when I was about nine years old, she had never traveled anywhere in her life.

And she, right before then, she took a trip to France and fell in love with it and said, okay, you're going to learn French, you're going to go to an immersion school, and someday maybe you'll be a French actor.

And so they dropped me in where it was a school, Le Lycée Francais de Los Angeles, that does everything in French.

So it was science and math and history, everything in French.

And I cried for about six months.

And then

And then I spoke fluently and got over it.

Well, actually, I have.

Yeah, I quit smoking.

When I quit smoking, I went to a hypnotist, and I was a really, really big smoker.

So I tried everything, and I tried to quit a million times.

And, you know, like everybody, I'd get edgy or I'd gain weight or I couldn't sleep.

So I went to this guy and, you know, wrote the check for $90 and said,

I don't know.