Best Jane Fonda Quotes

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

Jane Fonda

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

Jane Fonda

#3. I don't want to die without knowing who I am.

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#4. I knew that I had to write my memoirs.

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

Jane Fonda

#6. It's never too late - never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.

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#7. 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.

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#8. Address things now that could otherwise turn into regrets.

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#9. I'm now the elder in the position of doling out wisdom and trying to mend fences.

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#10. In this age of remote-controlled pushbutton war, we must all try very, very hard to remain human beings.

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#11. We were marching since we were babies and all we did was make Jane Fonda famous.

Robert Patrick

#12. When you're an older woman [in a movie], you are the brunt of the joke.

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#13. Women are not forgiven for aging. Robert Redford's lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles.

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#14. I grew up with a deep belief that wherever our troops fought, they were on the side of the angels.

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#15. 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.

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#16. Upon accepting her Oscar for "Julia," 1978: "My dear colleagues, I thank you very very much for this tribute to my work. I think that Jane Fonda and I have done the best work of our lives, and I salute you and I pay tribute to you, and I think you should.

Vanessa Redgrave

#17. 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 and think, 'What was I thinking?'

Jane Fonda

#18. It's about time we make the well-being of our young people more important than ideology and politics. As a country, we benefit from investing in their future by investing in teen pregnancy prevention.

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#19. I found that you're more powerful when talking from your soul.

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#20. 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.

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#21. I was shocked into the realization that I myself had played an unwitting role as a movie star and sex symbol in perpetrating the stereotypes that affected women all over the world.

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#22. Our young people are assets to be cultivated and nurtured; let's begin treating them that way.

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#23. When I was in my 40s was I simply produced my own movies because no one offered me anything. But certainly after 50 it's hard for a woman, which is why television is such a welcoming thing.

Jane Fonda

#24. Beware of men who use words that relate pejoratively to females when describing the 'other side.

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#25. A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.

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#26. Ultimately we must concern ourselves with pulling out by its roots the decadence that controls our culture, the profit motive that controls our culture.

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#27. Seek women mentors. If you're a businesswoman, look at the TEDx conferences. There's a lot of businesswomen that speak on there. I find them extremely inspiring.

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#28. Prostitutes are the inevitable product of a society that places ultimate importance on money, possessions, and competition.

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#29. Real love and intimacy can be much more possible when you're older.

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#30. 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.

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#31. I love films that make you feel good when you come out and, in my opinion, there's not enough of them these days.

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#32. I am convinced that we become what we do.

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#33. You don't need to," he replied. "You're already saved." And he went on to tell me that the original Greek meaning of the word saved meant that a person was whole.

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#34. Just saw American Sniper. Powerful. Another view of Coming Home. Bradley Cooper sensational. Bravo Clint Eastwood.

Jane Fonda

#35. 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

#36. Your goal should be to take your body and make it as healthy, strong, flexible and well-proportioned as you can.

Jane Fonda