Jane Fonda
Jane Fonda
Jane Fondais an American actress, writer, political activist, former fashion model and fitness guru. She is a two-time Academy Award winner and two time BAFTA Award winner. In 2014, she was the recipient of the American Film Institute AFI Life Achievement Award...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth21 December 1937
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
inspiring smart thinking
So I grew up feeling that I wasn't good enough, and that no-one would love me unless I was perfect. But no-one's perfect, we're not meant to be perfect. We're meant to be complete. But it's hard to be complete if you're trying to be perfect, so you kind of become disembodied. And I spent a lot of my life that way.""And if you don't own your strength... Women like me tend to always look over their shoulder to see who... "Who's the leader? Who's the smart one?" Never thinking it might be ME. Took a long time for me to get over that.
along came chance character funny gave outrageous quite script
The script came along and it was funny and it gave me the chance to play an outrageous character and I've never done anything before quite like her,
love possible
Real love and intimacy can be much more possible when you're older.
narrow
promulgate their right wing, narrow world view. It really doesn't have anything to do with me and it's kind of sick.
available lead needed
Contraception is important. Making contraception available doesn't lead to promiscuity. But much more is needed than just contraception.
class good id paying wish
I wish that Id been able to have a class like this when I had my first kid, 'cause I was not a good mother, ... And then, you end up paying for it later.
beginning blot coffee cup fatal house inner left marked physical quickly seems simplest stain ultimate
It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid. Even the stain on the coffee cup seems not coffee but the physical manifestation of one's inner stain, the fatal blot that from the beginning had marked one for ultimate aloneness.
cultural decade discord split
The '60s may be idealized in the movie from a cultural point of view, but the decade was all about discord and a big generational split that was very painful.
determine presents
What we view in the media - and who presents it to us - does so much to determine how we think, how we feel about ourselves, and how we view the world.
beyond women
I am blessed beyond reason with women friends.
given
I would have given up acting in a minute. I didn't like how it set me apart from other people.
bus plan speak vacuum
I would be a distraction--and the vacuum has been filled. That said, I plan to speak out and write some op-ed pieces, but no bus tour.
No, no, for a long time, I couldn't look at it, ... I thought that it was politically incorrect, you know.
absolutely discover intimacy known true
The only thing I have never known is true intimacy with a man. I absolutely wanted to discover that before dying.