Jodie Foster has been entertaining audiences since she was just a child.

“I am not moved by visuals but by words.

Foster also became fluent in French when attending Yale, while also studying German and Italian.

Jodie Foster at event

More than a decade after she graduated, Yale gave Foster an honorary doctorate of fine arts.

“I chose Yale basically for writing and literature,” she has said (viaBiography).

Despite her first-class education, Foster didn’t leave Hollywood behind forever.

Jodie Foster at event