Jodie Foster: When were you happiest?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Jodie Foster said elsewhere, not written here

Watching my sons ski down a mountain for the first time.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, February 2024 source ↗

Others on this question

Mary J Blige American singer and actress

When I was little kid, before I knew what worrying was about.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 April 2010 source ↗

Charles Dance British actor

Realising what I wanted to do as a career – aged about 22.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 November 2009 source ↗

Zoë Wanamaker American-born British actress

Getting married at Islington register office in 1994.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 March 2013 source ↗

In Macon, Georgia, during my childhood. I knew everybody there—it was like the whole town was your family. I felt complete there.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2001 source ↗

I would just be content with every moment as it is instead of gnashing my teeth trying to change things all the time.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 23 February 2024 source ↗

Deep and complex thoughts delivered with a wicked sense of humor.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 23 February 2024 source ↗

Naming my greatest fear, because then I’ll have to admit it, won’t I?

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, February 2024 source ↗

Watching a great movie in the afternoon and then taking a long nap.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 23 February 2024 source ↗

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