Jane Fonda Quotes - Page 2

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

The institution of marriage is obsolete.

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.

When you know in your heart why you did something, and you feel and you know that in spite of all the controversy that it was right, doesn't matter.

If you allow yourself, you can become stronger in the very places that you've been broken.

Instead of drifting along like a leaf in a river, understand who you are and how you come across to people and what kind of an impact you have on the people around you and the community around you and the world, so that when you go out, you can feel you have made a positive difference.

As I saw my 60th birthday approaching, I thought,What did 60 mean to me? I figured I'd probably live until I'm about 90, which meant that I was at the beginning of what I call my third act. As an actress, I know how important the third act is. It makes sense of the first and second acts. You can have first and second acts that are interesting, but you don't know what they mean. Then a good third act pulls it all together. And so I knew that, because I sat by my father's side over the long months when he was dying.

Refuse to be afraid that we will no longer be considered attractive and acceptable when we are strong.

I have a confidence about my life that comes from standing tall on my own two feet.

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

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.

I don't know if a country (America) where the people are so ignorant of reality and of history, if you can call that a free world.

I would like to say something, not just to Vietnam veterans in New England, but to men who were in Vietnam, who I hurt, or whose pain I caused to deepen because of the things that I said or did. I was trying to help end the killing and the war, but there were times when I was thoughtless and careless about it and I'm...very sorry that I hurt them. And I want to apologize to them and their families.

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

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.

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.

You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.

Sex and intimacy are not the same: You can have sex all your life and never be intimate with a person. There has to be empathy in the relationship. You have to enjoy seeing through their eyes. When you're with them, you're there and not thinking about what you're gonna do tomorrow.

I have always been with men who were type A, alpha males. I must exist because I'm with him, I'd think. But what made them what they were also often meant they were lacking empathy genes. And now I know I don't need an alpha male; I need somebody who's interesting. I'm not pretending that I'm 100 percent healed, so I might not know if a man is right for me right away, but it wouldn't take me seven years to figure it out. Maybe a month or two.

We've got to establish a socialistic economic structure that will limit private, profit-oriented businesses.

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

But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself.

Getting fit is a political act - you are taking charge of your life.

The challenge is not to be perfect. It’s to be whole.

Relationships are the oxygen of the psyche.