Quotes About Fonda

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

Jane Fonda

#2. 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

#3. 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

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

Jane Fonda

#5. 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

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

Jane Fonda

#7. I don't trust anybody who didn't inhale.

Peter Fonda

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

Jane Fonda

#9. 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

#10. 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

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

Jane Fonda

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

Jane Fonda

#13. 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

#14. 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

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

Jane Fonda

#16. 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

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

Jane Fonda

#18. 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

#19. You don't become the character.

Peter Fonda

#20. 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

#21. 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

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

Jane Fonda

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

Jane Fonda

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

Jane Fonda

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

Jane Fonda

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

Jane Fonda

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

Jane Fonda

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

Jane Fonda

#29. 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

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

Jane Fonda

#31. It's wonderful to me that bees have this simple, age-old thing going on.

Peter Fonda

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

Jane Fonda

#33. 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

#34. 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

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

Robert Patrick

#36. 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

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

Jane Fonda

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

Jane Fonda

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

Jane Fonda

#40. 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

#41. Well you're talking about a long career, a lot of movies, a lot of stars. I guess working with Henry Fonda and Katherine Hepburn was a great privilege.

Mark Rydell

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

Jane Fonda

#43. Lennon was not very fond of me. Lennon didn't like to be around somebody else who was likely to be the center of attention and didn't like being on deck with somebody who was intellectually as hot as he was.

Peter Fonda

#44. A big mirror to exercise in front of is essential.

Jane Fonda

#45. The reality is sobering: in the United States one in three girls will become pregnant before age 20, totaling more than 750,000 girls per year.

Jane Fonda

#46. As is my way, when I start something that I've put off doing, I always start with the hardest form. So I started with Ashtanga.

Jane Fonda

#47. The secret of losing weight is patience.

Jane Fonda

#48. I've worked really, really hard on myself to not be judgmental.

Jane Fonda

#49. Drink water between meals instead of with them so that the digestive juices will not be diluted.

Jane Fonda

#50. People ask me from time to time what it was like growing up with Henry Fonda as my father. I say, Ever see Fort Apache? He was like Colonel Thursday.

Peter Fonda

#51. You cannot expect your children to be happy eating esoteric beige-colored foods when their friends get soda pop, Snickers, and Twinkies.

Jane Fonda

#52. I was a chameleon, the woman men wanted me to be.

Jane Fonda

#53. Feminism is about ultimate, limitless reality ...

Jane Fonda

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

Jane Fonda

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

Jane Fonda

#56. I was so devastated by my second divorce that I had a nervous breakdown.

Jane Fonda

#57. My mother killed herself when I was 12. I won't complete that relationship. But I can try to understand her.

Jane Fonda

#58. I want to be on set and die hearing those words: Where's Peter?

Peter Fonda

#59. My thinking was scrambled when Sullivan and I separated. Something happened to me that had never happend before. I couldn't cope. It was heartbreak time. I thought it was the end of the world.

Henry Fonda

#60. Good enough is good enough. We're not supposed to be perfect. We're supposed to be complete.

Jane Fonda

#61. When you think you can't do any more repetitions, do two more.

Jane Fonda

#62. A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring.

Jane Fonda

#63. I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality.

Peter Fonda

#64. Any time you are put in the same category as Jane Fonda, a real legend, it feels surreal, perhaps even undeserved.

Megan Ellison

#65. Took out Skinny Minnie, Long Tall Sally, and Short Fat Fanny, but I'm kinda fonda Wanda.

Neil Young

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

Jane Fonda

#67. I think the entire world is going to be united against us.

Jane Fonda

#68. 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

#69. I would think that if you understood what sex education is, you would get down on your knees and worship a condom.

Jane Fonda

#70. I've worked with wonderful actors like Marlon Brando and Henry Fonda.

Eli Wallach

#71. To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.

Jane Fonda

#72. Henry Fonda's son: That's how everybody identified me until Easy Rider came along. Good old Captain America.

Peter Fonda

#73. I like to think both - it's not either/or. It's and.

Jane Fonda

#74. I dig my father. I wish he could open his eyes and dig me.

Peter Fonda

#75. I think feminism is about the spirit.

Jane Fonda

#76. Physical fitness is a three-legged stool: strength, aerobic capacity, and flexibility.

Jane Fonda

#77. In a war, you wield every weapon you have, including words. Especially words.

Fonda Lee

#78. It was a good experience working with Roger Vadim and Jane Fonda.

Terry Southern

#79. In my marriages, I'd lost parts of who I was because I was trying to mold myself into what I thought a man wanted me to be.

Jane Fonda

#80. Ask questions. Stay curious. It's much more important to stay interested than to be interesting.

Jane Fonda

#81. Emotionality is really easy for me. My father always said that Fondas can cry at a good steak.

Jane Fonda

#82. I was raised on Bruce Lee.

Bridget Fonda

#83. I've been close to Bette Davis for thirty-eight years - and I have the cigarette burns to prove it.

Henry Fonda

#84. 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

#85. 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

#86. If our work is stimulating and rewarding, if it pushes us to grow ... we become more valuable human beings.

Jane Fonda

#87. Children born to teens have less supportive and stimulating environments, poorer health, lower cognitive development, and worse educational outcomes. Children of teen mothers are at increased risk of being in foster care and becoming teen parents themselves, thereby repeating the cycle.

Jane Fonda

#88. You must decrease the amount of food you eat and increase the amount of exercise you get. That is all there is to it.

Jane Fonda

#89. 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.

Jane Fonda

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

Jane Fonda

#91. I bought all those [fitness] videos
Richard Simmons, Jane Fonda. I love to sit and eat cookies and watch 'em.

Dolly Parton

#92. 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

#93. I was struck with a bolt of distilled horror like I have never known before. Far worse than suddenly finding yourself walking through a prison cafeteria wearing Daisy Duke shorts and a Jane Fonda headband.

Augusten Burroughs

#94. One part of wisdom is knowing what you don't need anymore and letting it go.

Jane Fonda

#95. I think what's happening in the world - there's nothing more dangerous than a wounded beast, and the patriarchy is wounded.

Jane Fonda

#96. Civilization has always been a bust.

Peter Fonda

#97. I always had a penchant for falling in love. Every time I found myself without a mate, I fell into a state of low-sizzling panic.

Jane Fonda

#98. My abilities grow with each job, whether it's writing or directing. When I stop learing, I'll stop working.

Peter Fonda

#99. 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.

Jane Fonda

#100. I am able to talk about my life in a way that helps other women - and men, but mostly women - understand their own life. I feel real proud of that. And then the fact that my children are okay. You know, you're only as happy as your least happy child. So if your kids aren't okay, you're not good.

Jane Fonda