Top 100 Fonda's Quotes
#1. Being Henry Fonda's daughter got me started. But it didn't keep me working.
Jane Fonda
#2. The whole weekend turned out to be one giant round of excruciating foreplay, and if he doesn't stop stalling and give me some relief pretty damn pronto, there's going to be a girl-parts rebellion the likes of which he's never seen. I'm wound tighter than Jane Fonda's latest facelift, goddammit.
Leisa Rayven
#3. I knew Henry Fonda was my father, but I didn't know who I was. They all thought of me as Henry Fonda's son. Unfortunately for them, they never got to know me.
Peter Fonda
#4. Boyd Shreave tore the page from Eugenie Fonda's memoir and, with a contemptuous flourish, wiped his ass with it.
Carl Hiaasen
#5. Henry Fonda's son: That's how everybody identified me until Easy Rider came along. Good old Captain America.
Peter Fonda
#6. I've been doing the Fonda workout: the Peter Fonda workout. That's where I wake up, take a hit of acid, smoke a joint, and go to my sister's house and ask her for money.
Kevin Meaney
#7. There are more people alive today than have everdied. If that's true, and you believe in reincarnation, then thatmeans there are a lot of people walking around without souls ... I've met some of them ... Haven't you?
Bridget Fonda
#8. The bond between a parent and child is the primary bond, the foundation for the rest of the child's life. The presence or absence of this bond determines much about the child's resiliency and what kind of adult they will grow up to be.
Jane Fonda
#9. That's what we're all doing: paving the way, finding the roles that have the complication instead of the one that's always got it together or the dedicated housewife or the wild one who smokes cigarettes and sleeps with anybody.
Jane Fonda
#10. Remember, Alan Greenspan was a member of Ayn Rand's collective. To understand this is to understand why we are doomed with the Federal Reserve.
Peter Fonda
#11. 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.
Jane Fonda
#12. I always hated when the studios just kind of said that anybody can act. You look at people like Spencer Tracy, Henry Fonda - and I'm just talking about the male actors - there aren't a lot who can act. It's a very special talent, and I wish it were recognized as a very special talent.
Bob Newhart
#13. 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.
Jane Fonda
#14. Denial can be a pathology or a survival mechanism - and sometimes it's both.
Jane Fonda
#15. I've been accused of being too flexible, too willing to mold myself to men, and that's something I'm constantly working on.
Jane Fonda
#16. 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.
Jane Fonda
#17. My abilities grow with each job, whether it's writing or directing. When I stop learing, I'll stop working.
Peter Fonda
#18. Looking is an important part of Stanwyck's acting: many performers have beautiful eyes (for example, Henry Fonda), or use their eyes expressively (most remarkably, perhaps, Bette Davis), but few use them so attentively to observe and survey others and the world [as Stanwyck].
Andrew Klevan
#19. Well, what is a relationship? It's about two people having tremendous weaknesses and vulnerabilities, like we all do, and one person being able to strengthen the other in their areas of vulnerability, and vice versa. You need each other. You complete each other, passion and romance aside.
Jane Fonda
#20. Since There are so many questions about what the president was doing over 30 years ago, what is it that he did after his honorable discharge from the National Guard? Did he make speeches alongside Jane Fonda denouncing America's racist war in Vietnam?
Jeff Gannon
#21. You know what they call a guy who switches sides in homicide? They call him a Jane Fonda, as in hanging with the North Vietnamese. You get it? It's crossing to the dark side.
Michael Connelly
#22. On vague wording of drone strike criteria: Are you going to just drop a hellfire missile on Jane Fonda? Are you going to drop a missile on Kent State? That's gobbledygook.
Rand Paul
#23. You are being used as cannon fodder for U.S. imperialism.
Jane Fonda
#24. 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.
Jane Fonda
#25. 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.
Jane Fonda
#26. Henry Fonda one time said that every time he had a job, he thought it was gonna' be the last one. And, if you got any sense, you gotta' think that because, you know when somebody's gonna do a dip, some of 'em go pretty far down.
Barry Corbin
#27. Women are rising. And I think that's all the violence and war - it could be the last gasp of the patriarchy, actually.
Jane Fonda
#28. It's better to be interested than interesting.
Jane Fonda
#29. 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.
Jane Fonda
#30. We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You're born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude.
Jane Fonda
#31. Feminism is not just about women; it's about letting all people lead fuller lives.
Jane Fonda
#32. People think actresses find public speaking easy, and it's not easy at all; we're used to hiding behind masks.
Jane Fonda
#33. 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.
Jane Fonda
#34. You can do yoga and be thinking about going shopping. The goal is kind of like meditation, is to be totally present in your body in the moment. That's when the most profound effects of yoga can happen. That's what I urge people to try to do. It's very important to be in your body.
Jane Fonda
#35. It's much more important to be interested than to be interesting.
Jane Fonda
#37. Henry Fonda gave me a spanking during a scene in Spencer's Mountain.
Maureen O'Hara
#38. I love mistakes because it's the only way you learn.
Jane Fonda
#39. Ted needs someone to be there 100% of the time. He thinks that's love. It's not love - it's babysitting.
Jane Fonda
#40. It's very easy to get excited about a job, but it's a big commitment because you do it and then you have to live with it when it's finished. It's forever in your section in the video store. It's you. It's almost like deciding who you have a child with.
Bridget Fonda
#41. think Jane Fonda has done something. I could see her doing most anything. Redford's certainly been effective in pursuing his interests. Who always sings I Left My
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#42. 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.
Jane Fonda
#43. "Strong" to people means "real." It means you believe that's a person who exists, as opposed to some two-dimensional depiction of women.
Jane Fonda
#44. When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed.
Jane Fonda
#45. I believe people have different ways of approaching the Word. For me, it's metaphor, written by people a long time after Christ died and interpreted by specific groups. I read the gospels that aren't included in the Bible. These make me feel good about calling myself a Christian.
Jane Fonda
#46. It's hard for women at my age in Hollywood, but I'm not discouraged.
Jane Fonda
#47. 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.
Jane Fonda
#48. It's never to late- never to late to change your life,never to late to be happy
Jane Fonda
#49. You don't learn from successes; you don't learn from awards; you don't learn from celebrity; you only learn from wounds and scars and mistakes and failures. And that's the truth.
Jane Fonda
#50. 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.
Jane Fonda
#51. The challenge is not to be perfect ... it's to be whole
Jane Fonda
#52. Movies are collective, cooperative endeavours, which I like a lot. But writing is all up to you, it's what's so scary; it's just you and that page. But I really like it a lot.
Jane Fonda
#53. Real love and intimacy can be much more possible when you're older.
Jane Fonda
#54. In this age of remote-controlled pushbutton war, we must all try very, very hard to remain human beings.
Jane Fonda
#55. Your goal should be to take your body and make it as healthy, strong, flexible and well-proportioned as you can.
Jane Fonda
#56. I found myself facing a Christian Science Reading Room. My God! It had been eight years. There had never been any renunciation of religion on my part, but like so many people, it was a gradual fading away.
Henry Fonda
#57. My identity depended on men for so long. You can be successful and still have the feeling that if you're not with a man you don't exist.
Jane Fonda
#59. 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
#60. Just saw American Sniper. Powerful. Another view of Coming Home. Bradley Cooper sensational. Bravo Clint Eastwood.
Jane Fonda
#61. 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.
Jane Fonda
#62. I am convinced that we become what we do.
Jane Fonda
#63. I love films that make you feel good when you come out and, in my opinion, there's not enough of them these days.
Jane Fonda
#64. 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.
Jane Fonda
#65. If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.
Jane Fonda
#66. I found that you're more powerful when talking from your soul.
Jane Fonda
#67. 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.
Jane Fonda
#68. Ultimately we must concern ourselves with pulling out by its roots the decadence that controls our culture, the profit motive that controls our culture.
Jane Fonda
#69. A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.
Jane Fonda
#70. I don't trust anybody who didn't inhale.
Peter Fonda
#71. Beware of men who use words that relate pejoratively to females when describing the 'other side.
Jane Fonda
#72. 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
#73. Our young people are assets to be cultivated and nurtured; let's begin treating them that way.
Jane Fonda
#74. 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.
Jane Fonda
#75. 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.
Jane Fonda
#76. Prostitutes are the inevitable product of a society that places ultimate importance on money, possessions, and competition.
Jane Fonda
#77. For me, college wasn't a breeze. I had 8 o'clock classes, I worked from 3 to 11 at the Settlement House. On weekends, if Northwestern Bell needed me, I'd troubleshoot for them, and I had a steady girl. God!
Henry Fonda
#78. Brando's a family friend. His mother gave my father a shot to be in a play at the Omaha Community Playhouse. That was the first production he was in.
Peter Fonda
#79. The skin is our body's envelope, the wrapping that delivers us to the world. If we understand how the skin functions in mid-life and adjust goals and life-styles appropriately, we'll be surprised how much better we can look.
Jane Fonda
#80. You look at that Democratic debate, I had to laugh at what I saw Barack Obama do. I mean in one week he went from saying he's going to sit down, you know, for tea, with our enemies, but then he's going to bomb our allies. I mean he's gone from Jane Fonda to Dr. Strangelove in one week.
Mitt Romney
#81. Ask questions. Stay curious. It's much more important to stay interested than to be interesting.
Jane Fonda
#82. I like to think both - it's not either/or. It's and.
Jane Fonda
#83. My whole damn family was nice. I don't think I've imagined it. It's true. Maybe it has to do with being brought up as Christian Scientists. Half of my relatives were Readers or Practitioners in the church.
Henry Fonda
#84. I want to be on set and die hearing those words: Where's Peter?
Peter Fonda
#85. 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.
Jane Fonda
#86. I grew up with a deep belief that wherever our troops fought, they were on the side of the angels.
Jane Fonda
#87. Women are not forgiven for aging. Robert Redford's lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles.
Jane Fonda
#88. When you're an older woman [in a movie], you are the brunt of the joke.
Jane Fonda
#89. I think what's happening in the world - there's nothing more dangerous than a wounded beast, and the patriarchy is wounded.
Jane Fonda
#90. We were marching since we were babies and all we did was make Jane Fonda famous.
Robert Patrick
#91. I'm not like Henry Fonda. He lives to act. I've just had a dedication to do the best I could. When I don't have challenges, the days get long. But I do enjoy being on stage. If I do good work, I get a kick out of that.
Don Ameche
#92. 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
#93. I'm now the elder in the position of doling out wisdom and trying to mend fences.
Jane Fonda
#94. It's wonderful to me that bees have this simple, age-old thing going on.
Peter Fonda
#95. Address things now that could otherwise turn into regrets.
Jane Fonda
#96. 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.
Jane Fonda
#97. It's never too late - never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.
Jane Fonda
#98. Everyone should know that feeling of overcoming fear and mastering something. People who aren't taught that become soggy.
Jane Fonda
#99. I knew that I had to write my memoirs.
Jane Fonda
#100. I don't want to die without knowing who I am.
Jane Fonda
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