Jodie Foster gets her Hollywood star: 'I don’t think I’ll ever stop acting'

Jodie Foster insisted she will never quit acting as she finally received her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

The American actress, 53, was joined by her Panic Room co-star Kristen Stewart as she was presented with the honour in Los Angeles.

Foster started her career in a TV commercial aged three and has won two best actress Oscars for her performances in The Accused and The Silence Of The Lambs.

But she thought she may never receive a star in the city in which she grew up. “I thought for a while, ‘Maybe it will never happen.’ But I was holding out and it worked out for me.”

Foster, who was joined by her sons Charles and Kit, has moved behind the camera in recent years.

She said: “I’ve been acting since I was three so I can’t imagine I’ll ever stop, but I definitely want to focus on directing for now."

Stewart took the podium to talk about her former co-star, saying: “Jodie Foster was my favorite actress before I was cast as her daughter in a movie called Panic Room when I was 10.”

She joked: “She came onto the movie late and I was totally there to show her the ropes.

“Of all the examples that I could have had at such an impressionable age, there's nothing self-serving about her.

“She cares about people, she is quite the opposite of the type of person that is gravitated towards being an actress.”