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Jodie Foster

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1036 total appearances

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Jodie Foster

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

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Jodie Foster

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

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Jodie Foster

He said a few things.

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Jodie Foster

I felt a little sleepy.

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Jodie Foster

But other than that, I didn't, you know, didn't go into any kind of trance.

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Jodie Foster

And I left thinking, well, this is dumb.

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Jodie Foster

I can't believe I gave that guy $90 and I could smoke tomorrow.

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Jodie Foster

And then I just never smoked again.

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Jodie Foster

Yeah, I mean, a lot of people, my character, Lilian Steiner, is a Freudian psychoanalyst.

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Jodie Foster

And, you know, in the United States, psychoanalysis and Freud, we've kind of canceled him.

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Jodie Foster

You know, we decided he's, you know, a misogynist and, you know, nobody really wanted to follow Freudian principles.

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Jodie Foster

But what he was most famous for, of course, when he started was these case histories of people who came in with hysterical illnesses and said...

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Jodie Foster

You know, my right arm won't move or I'm blind for no reason.

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Jodie Foster

And he would say, well, let's uncover parts of your past and that will help this physical ailment.

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Jodie Foster

And in this character's case, she goes there because she can't stop crying.

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Jodie Foster

Not crying, but just water just keeps coming out of her eyes and she's really annoyed.

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Jodie Foster

That's never happened to her.

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Jodie Foster

She's not particularly sad.