I remember saying goodbye to my father the night he left to join the Navy. He didn't have to. He was older than other servicemen and had a family to support but he wanted to be a part of the fight against fascism, not just make movies about it. I admired this about him.

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

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

When you're an older woman [in a movie] you tend to be in - how did you put it? You're the brunt of the joke.

If you understood what communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees that we would some day become communist. . . . I, a socialist, think that we should strive toward a socialist society, all the way to communism.

Christianity or any religion doesn't necessarily have to be about a church. You carry your God inside you... But when you're famous and the word gets out that you're a Christian, every church is saying, "Even Jane Fonda." People come up to me in airports and throw their arms around me.

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