Jane Fonda Quotes

Declare a truce and accept food as a life-giving friend.

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.

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.

I left acting for 15 years, and I think it's really nice to have another life. I took too much for granted when I was younger. I didn't really want to be an actor. I didn't really love it. And so I made a lot of mistakes. Oddly, I care much more about it now. I feel like a complete novice.

Go for the burn! Sweat!

It is never too late to master your weaknesses.

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

Enjoyable does not necessarily mean easy.

Magazines, books, novels, TV, internet, movies - all of those things is what creates our consciousness.

The challenge is not to be perfect. It’s to be whole.

Perfection is a toxic desire. We are not supposed to be perfect. The challenge is not to be perfect, it's to be whole.

Get over the feeling that the two words don’t go together - women and power. The fact is, if we don’t put the two together, and don’t understand how power changes complexion in the hands of women, then we’re not going to make it.

Someone once said that under the bell jar of compliance, the only thing that blooms is rage.

When you think you can't do any more repetitions, do two more.

The people who did you wrong or who didn't quite know how to show up, you forgive them. And forgiving them allows you to forgive yourself too.

Working in Hollywood does give one a certain expertise in the field of prostitution.

Good physical condition is protection. Our strength comes from our body.

You think you're being broken but you're really being broken open...and that's where the healing happens, in those broken places...if you'll allow it.

When a child enters the world through you, it alters everything on a psychic, psychological and purely practical level.

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.

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

Women don't make the decisions in the media. Even if you see women on camera, they have to answer to the person upstairs, which is mostly men. Women only hold 3% of the decision-making offices in the media.

I always tried, in the books I wrote, to make it clear: Thin is not the goal. But I was thin. So no matter what I said, the subliminal message was, "You have to look a certain way." And I'm not happy about playing into that.

Emotionality is really easy for me. My father always said that Fondas can cry at a good steak.

My greatest asset is that I am constantly changing.

pragmatist that I am, I always meet necessity with enthusiasm.

I know how gratifying it is not only to work in film but to be acknowledged by peers; producing 9 to 5 was an opportunity that I valued precisely because it’s so rarely in the hands of women.

If you're ever in a situation where you're not getting served or you can't get what you need, just cry.

You cannot expect your children to be happy eating esoteric beige-colored foods when their friends get soda pop, Snickers, and Twinkies.

I confess. If the law had been appiled to me properly for what I did in Vietnam, I'd have been convicted for high treason.

I find that arduous physical labor can jump-start my thought process.

It's much more important to be interested than to be interesting.

Denial can be a pathology or a survival mechanism - and sometimes it's both.

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.

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?

Through therapy and a lot of thinking and writing my memoirs, I've been able to use my life as a lesson.

I'll smoke pot every now and then. I cannot see a movie on pot. The number of movies I've seen thinking, This is probably the best I have ever seen, and then I'll see it again sober and think, What was I thinking?

You're more powerful when talking from your soul.

I think the entire world is going to be united against us.

People think actresses find public speaking easy, and it's not easy at all; we're used to hiding behind masks.

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

You must decrease the amount of food you eat and increase the amount of exercise you get. That is all there is to it.

I lived in France during the '60s. I was there from the early '60s until 1970, so my view of the '60s is more global. It was a time of tremendous transition, not only for America but for the whole world.

I am able to talk about my life in a way that helps other women - and men, but mostly women - understand their own life. I feel real proud of that.

I always carry yeast flakes and bran with me when I travel.

Rituals are important. I get up. I take the dogs on a walk around to the front and then I pick up the papers. Then I walk around to the front door, then me and the two dogs come in the house and I give them treats. I make coffee. It's the regularity of these kinds of rituals that I find deeply satisfying.

This toxic striving for perfection is a female thing. How many men obsess about being perfect? For men, generally, good enough is good enough.

I would think that if you understood what sex education is, you would get down on your knees and worship a condom.