Jane Fonda
film actor, writer, stage actor, model, actor, film producer, television actor, autobiographer, voice actor
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All Quotes by Jane Fonda
“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.”
“A mother who is obsessing about being thin and dieting and exercising is not going to be a very good mother.”
“A mother who is obsessing about being thin and dieting and exercising is not going to be a very good mother.”
“It's hard for women at my age in Hollywood, but I'm not discouraged.”
“If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.”
“How would you like to have a father who keeps getting younger looking every year? Do you realize what that can do to a woman?”
“The institution of marriage is obsolete”
“I vowed I wouldn't get married until someone gave me one good reason to. No one ever did - but I got married anyway”
“In this country the only way a minority can get anything done is to make a little noise.”
“It's an unfair position, so you can do one of two things: just shut up, which is something I don't find easy, or just learn an awful lot very fast, which is what I tried to do.”
“I believe that we cannot survive as a democratic country when we are supporting someone like Thieu in Saigon, who has put 300,000 political prisoners in jail because they've spoken in favor of peace. I just don't believe that when a Republican Party bugs the Democratic Party headquarters, that that smacks of democracy. These kind of things I speak out against. That doesn't mean I'm a Communist.”
“Winning means some kind of approval of the Establishment which means people will more readily accept me, may be less frightened of me and other people who speak out”
“To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.”
“I am saddened that I have been linked with her politically... I have disagreed with her on every issue, from the bottom of my toes”
“Women are not forgiven for aging. Robert Redford's lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles.”
“It's not about how you look, it's about how you feel. I can do more with ease and grace now at 52 than I could when I was 20. I can ride my bike 60 miles, I can handle stress, I have good muscle tone. That's what it's about. Not about being thin but about being healthy”
“I don't think there's ever been such a clear choice between radicalism and moderation. I mean, we are dealing with a radical ideologue here.”
“It's a lie. I agree with the military experts who say it's a quagmire.”
“The trick is to be Zen about it. Winning is sometimes not the prize”
“In the hyper-sensitized reality of the region in which any criticism of Israel is swiftly and often unfairly branded as anti-Semitic, it can become counterproductive to inflame rather than explain and this means to hear the narratives of both sides, to articulate the suffering on both sides, not just the Palestinians.”
“This has gone on far too long, this spreading of lies about me! None of it is true. NONE OF IT! I love my country. I have never done anything to hurt my country or the men and women who have fought and continue to fight for us. I do not understand what the far right stands to gain by continuing with these myths.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The most important thing to do as you age is to stay physically active. Lots of people just throw in the towel if they can't do what they used to do, and that's terrible.”
“I took every chance I could to meet with U.S. soldiers. I talked with them and read the books they gave me about the war. I decided I needed to return to my country and join with them - active duty soldiers and Vietnam Veterans in particular - to try and end the war.”