Jane Fonda Quotes

Address things now that could otherwise turn into regrets.

Shortly after I turned 50, both Ted Turner and the AARP came into my life. The only difference? With AARP, there were benefits.

Exercise teaches you the pleasure of discipline.

It's better to be interested than interesting.

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.

If adolescent pregnancy prevention is to become a priority, then our strategy, as advocates, must contain two key elements: civic engagement and education.

Revolution is an act of love; we are the children of revolution, born to be rebels. It runs in our blood.

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.

You know, you're only as happy as your least happy child. So if your kids aren't okay, you're not good.

We grow up being told, "Be a good girl." When you're told to be good, you have to get rid of whatever is bad.

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

The harder you work out, the more you should stretch.

I was raised in the '50s. I was taught by my father that how I looked was all that mattered.

I'm an assistant storyteller. It's like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but I'm waiting on six million people a week, if I'm lucky.

The sex is better and I understand life better. I don't want to be young again.

Lee Strasberg told me I had talent. Real talent. It was the first time that anyone, except my father--who had to say so--told me I was good. At anything. It was a turning point in my life. I went to bed thinking about acting. I woke up thinking about acting. It was like the roof had come off my life!

I'm not sure that I would have become a Christian if I had continued to live in Hollywood because the notion wouldn't have occurred to me.

In this country, the only way a minority can get anything done is to make a little noise.

My life is a stairway to heaven, not a 'decline into decrepitude.

Reproductive freedom is a real danger for the patriarchy, because it means that women are empowered.

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.

I think that, like most of us, I was born with an innate goodness. And I believe that God has seen that in me and has protected me through times when I should have died so I could fulfill my potential and do his work.

Telling lies and showing off to get attention are mistakes I made that I don't want my kids to make.

We understand that Nixon's aggression against Vietnam is a racist aggression, that the American war in Vietnam is a racist war, a white man's war...We deplore that you are being used as cannon fodder for U.S. imperialism. We've seen photographs of American bombs and antipersonnel weapons being dropped, wantonly, accidentally perhaps, on your heads, on the heads of your comrades.

If I can change, anybody can change.

I never wanted to be an actor. My dad was an actor, and he never brought joy home, so I didn't view it as something that I would want to do. But I got fired as a secretary, and then I started studying, I started doing it just to earn money. And it took me a long time to learn to love it. And what I loved was telling a story. I tried to avoid making plays or films that weren't telling a story that I felt was important. I discovered in the process that it makes you more empathic because you have to enter someone else's reality and learn to see through many other people's eyes.

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.

I like to be wild in passion and calculated in expression! I'm both. I like to be wild in passion more. But I think the balance is what's essential.

I'd like to think that I have integrity.

I'm vain. My arms are thin, but I'm vain about loose flesh. And so I'm careful that what I wear will show off my best parts, which are my waist and my butt.

Women are rising. And I think that's all the violence and war - it could be the last gasp of the patriarchy, actually.

Eat only when you are hungry-not because it is one o'clock or seven o'clock or whatever.

All my life I had believed that unless I was perfect I would not be loved.

I'm a very brave person. I can go to North Vietnam, I can challenge my government, but I can't challenge the man I'm with if means I'm going to end up alone.

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

A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.

My position on the POW issue has been widely misquoted and taken out of context. What I originally said and have continued to say is that the POW's are lying if they assert it was North Vietnamese policy to torture American Prisoners.

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.

I am not a do-gooder. I am a revolutionary. A revolutionary woman.

Food is more than a matter of taste-it is the fuel for our bodies.

I think the Internet and technology in general has changed everything. We can see it overseas even more with the Arab Spring and so forth.

We are not meant to be perfect; we are meant to be whole

Female listeners are leaving traditional talk radio because of the rough-edged, shouting nature of it.

So I grew up feeling that I wasn't good enough, and that no-one would love me unless I was perfect. But no-one's perfect, we're not meant to be perfect. We're meant to be complete. But it's hard to be complete if you're trying to be perfect, so you kind of become disembodied. And I spent a lot of my life that way.""And if you don't own your strength... Women like me tend to always look over their shoulder to see who... "Who's the leader? Who's the smart one?" Never thinking it might be ME. Took a long time for me to get over that.

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

Teach girls to read and to work at something where they can bring home money - and the entire balance of power shifts.

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.

I never was a hippie! I went to India because so many friends like Mia Farrow and The Beatles were going there to discover truth. And so I went and trekked through India by myself, but instead of discovering truth, I wanted to join the Peace Corps.