Jane Fonda famous quotes

It's never too late - never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.
-- Jane Fonda

#Inspirational #Happy Birthday #Being Happy

We all, in fact, carry so many people inside us; the only difference is that actors get paid for it, and we sort of spruce it up a bit.
-- Jane Fonda

#Differences #People #Actors

To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.
-- Jane Fonda

#Reality #People #Care

Female listeners are leaving traditional talk radio because of the rough-edged, shouting nature of it. Women want more light and less heat.
-- Jane Fonda

#Light #Leaving #Female

Stay curious, keep learning and keep growing. And always strive to be more interested than interesting.
-- Jane Fonda

#Interesting #Growing #Strive

Think of anger as a muscle. The way you express anger isn't the way that I do, or you. If you have a good director, you will find that he's getting you to use an entirely different muscle that you never even knew you had - it's real hard and sore, then after a while it becomes normal. And you discover all these new muscles when you enter a new character - that's what a director does for you.
-- Jane Fonda

#Real #Character #Thinking

We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You're born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude.
-- Jane Fonda

#Birthday #Motivation #Inspiration

One of the wonderful things about being an actor is that every director is different.
-- Jane Fonda

#Directors #Different #Actors

You don't learn from successes; you don't learn from awards; you don't learn from celebrity; you only learn from wounds and scars and mistakes and failures. And that's the truth.
-- Jane Fonda

#Mistake #Awards #Scar

When you know in your heart why you did something, and you feel and you know that in spite of all the controversy that it was right, doesn't matter.
-- Jane Fonda

#Heart #Matter #Spite

We are not meant to be perfect; we are meant to be whole
-- Jane Fonda

#Perfect #Meant To Be

I hate to create cynicism about politicians. We just need to invade. Regular people need to run for office and keep their balls and ovaries intact.
-- Jane Fonda

#Running #Hate #People

The glow and energy of the healthy woman is the ultimate beauty, the only beauty that will last.
-- Jane Fonda

#Healthy #Energy #Lasts

Studios weren't banging on my door to offer me parts... And I thought, well how am I ever going to make movies that speak to my heart and to my values?
-- Jane Fonda

#Heart #Doors #Speak

We're not meant to be perfect. It took me a long time to learn that.
-- Jane Fonda

#Long #Perfect #Meant To Be

I think I look good for my age. I've always looked younger than I really am. I'm 67 and I look about, maybe 62 or something like that. And I think my healthy lifestyle has paid off. I suffer from osteoarthritis. That's genetic and there's nothing I can do about that, except to try and not jump up and down, but rather swim and bike, instead of jumping up and down.
-- Jane Fonda

#Thinking #Jumping #Swim

But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself.
-- Jane Fonda

#Women #Liberation

I knew that my newfound activism and feminism was going to improve my acting, because I was seeing things not just in very narrow, individual, kind of Freudian terms, but seeing them in a much broader, societal way that was going to deepen and enrich my talent.
-- Jane Fonda

#Feminism #Acting #Way

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.
-- Jane Fonda

#Our Words #Affirmation #Awareness

We need women friends, women who challenge us. I have chosen not to have any more plastic surgery. Sally Field and I have kind of made a pact about that. It's really hard, especially if you're a public person. But I want to give a face to aging.
-- Jane Fonda

#Giving #Challenges #Needs

One part of wisdom is knowing what you don't need anymore and letting it go.
-- Jane Fonda

#Knowing #Let It Go #Needs

Good enough is good enough. We're not supposed to be perfect. We're supposed to be complete.
-- Jane Fonda

#Perfect #Good Enough #Enough

I've done four videos for older people under my new brand, Prime Time, and the missing link was yoga. I'm aiming it for older people - people who have never worked out or who are recovering from a surgery and have to start slow. It's easy, you can't get hurt, it's very doable, and I've done it in ten-minute segments.
-- Jane Fonda

#Hurt #Yoga #People

My childhood was influenced by the roles my father played in his movies. Whether Abraham Lincoln or Tom Joad in the 'Grapes of Wrath,' his characters communicated certain values which I try to carry with me to this day.
-- Jane Fonda

#Father #Character #Wrath

Everyone should know that feeling of overcoming fear and mastering something. People who aren't taught that become soggy.
-- Jane Fonda

#Loss #People #Feelings

What I learned is, we have to listen to each other, even when we don't agree, even when we think we hate each other. We have to listen to each others narratives. Not interrupt defensively, or with hostility, but really try to open our hearts and listen with empathy. I learned so much from that meeting. It was a very difficult thing to do and it was one of the best things that I ever did in my life. Look what scares you in the face, and try to understand it. Empathy, I have learned, is revolutionary.
-- Jane Fonda

#Hate #Heart #Thinking

Movies are collective, cooperative endeavours, which I like a lot. But writing is all up to you, it's what's so scary; it's just you and that page. But I really like it a lot.
-- Jane Fonda

#Writing #Scary #Pages

Instead of drifting along like a leaf in a river, understand who you are and how you come across to people and what kind of an impact you have on the people around you and the community around you and the world, so that when you go out, you can feel you have made a positive difference.
-- Jane Fonda

#Impact #Rivers #Differences

Mostly actors are progressive because we are accustomed to all the nuances of human life, whereas dictators just try to flatten it all out. So we usually try to stand up to dictators like, well, we won't mention names.
-- Jane Fonda

#Names #Trying #Actors

When I'm in Canada, I feel this is what the world should be like.
-- Jane Fonda

#World #Canada #Should

I never would've imagined in the first part of my life that I could've stood up and said anything. The war in Vietnam changed me. I was so angry. Some of my speeches probably weren't well considered.
-- Jane Fonda

#War #Vietnam #Speech

You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don't find easy, or learn an awful lot very fast, which is what I tried to do.
-- Jane Fonda

#Inspirational #Women #Two

If I can change, anybody can change.
-- Jane Fonda

Getting fit is a political act - you are taking charge of your life.
-- Jane Fonda

#Fitness Motivational #Political #Get Fit

I found that you're more powerful when talking from your soul.
-- Jane Fonda

#Powerful #Talking #Soul

If you can intervene early in the lives of girls here and in other parts of the world, you can begin to change the prospects for the future.
-- Jane Fonda

#Girl #Future #World

My identity depended on men for so long. You can be successful and still have the feeling that if you're not with a man you don't exist.
-- Jane Fonda

#Successful #Men #Long

You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.
-- Jane Fonda

#People #Trying #Acting

If we as a nation are to break the cycle of poverty, crime and the growing underclass of young people ill equipped to be productive citizens, we need to not only implement effective programs to prevent teen pregnancy, but we must also help those who have already given birth so that they become effective, nurturing, bonding parents.
-- Jane Fonda

#Pregnancy #People #Parent

Some people are surprised that the Republicans are waging a war on women, or that they voted against equal pay for women. I'm not surprised at all. In some ways, it may be a good thing. They're defending the patriarchy, which is a wounded beast! And wounded beasts are always dangerous.
-- Jane Fonda

#War #Equal Pay #People

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.
-- Jane Fonda

#Careers #Unexpected #Inconvenience

Look what scares you in the face and try to understand it. Empathy is revolutionary.
-- Jane Fonda

#Empathy #Trying #Scare

A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.
-- Jane Fonda

#Dramatic #Situation

Refuse to be afraid that we will no longer be considered attractive and acceptable when we are strong.
-- Jane Fonda

#Strong #Attractive #Refuse

I don't think there's anything more important than making peace before it's too late. And it almost always falls to the child to try to move toward the parent.
-- Jane Fonda

#Children #Moving #Fall

The challenge is not to be perfect…it’s to be whole
-- Jane Fonda

#Inspiring #Perfect #Challenges

Think about it: Reducing crime and poverty and ensuring that we have an educated, stable work force has a direct effect on you and me and the future of our country.
-- Jane Fonda

#Country #Thinking #Poverty

If you allow yourself, you can become stronger in the very places that you've been broken.
-- Jane Fonda

#Broken #Stronger

Men fear that becoming 'we' will erase his 'I.' For women, our 'we' is our saving grace Women's relationships are like a renewable source of power.
-- Jane Fonda

#Men #Grace #Saving