Fonda Quotes

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

I am blessed beyond reason with women friends. ~ Jane Fonda

Address things now that could otherwise turn into regrets. ~ Jane Fonda

We wanna' be free! We wanna' be free to do what we wanna' do. We wanna' be free to ride. We wanna' be free to ride our machines without being hassled by The Man! And we wanna' get loaded. And we wanna' have a good time. And that's what we are gonna' do. We are gonna' have a good time ... We are gonna' have a party. ~ Peter Fonda

I wasn't a hippie and I wasn't even a bohemian. I was extremely earnest and serious. ~ Jane Fonda

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. ~ Jane Fonda

Feminism is not just about women; it's about letting all people lead fuller lives. ~ Jane Fonda

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

The label of liberalism is hardly a sentence to public ignominy: otherwise Bruce Springsteen would still be rehabilitating used Cadillacs in Asbury Park and Jane Fonda, for all we know, would be just another overweight housewife. ~ Barbara Ehrenreich

Consistency can be a trap, especially if it leads to being consistently wrong rather than to stopping, admitting your mistake, and changing course. ~ Jane Fonda

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

I truly miss the genius of the music of John Lennon, as I'm sure everybody does. ~ Peter Fonda

The absolute minimum for effective exercise is three times a week on alternate days for at least half an hour. ~ Jane Fonda

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. ~ Jane Fonda

I confess. If the law had been appiled to me properly for what I did in Vietnam, I'd have been convicted for high treason. ~ Jane Fonda

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

An exercise outfit helps because it sets this time apart from the rest of your day and makes it matter more. ~ Jane Fonda

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

I've worked with wonderful actors like Marlon Brando and Henry Fonda. ~ Eli Wallach

I was so devastated by my second divorce that I had a nervous breakdown. ~ Jane Fonda

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

I spent most of my time floating on an inflatable raft in the pristine Mediterranean waters, my big belly curving toward the sun, reading (incongruously) The Autobiography of Malcolm X. It rocked me to my core. Malcolm's story opened a window onto a reality I had ignored. But the greatest revelation the book brought me was the possibility of profound human transformation. I was spellbound by his journey from the doped-up, numbers-running, woman-beating, street-hustling, pimping Malcolm Little to a proud, clean, literate, Muslim Malcolm X who taught that all white people were the Devil incarnate - to his final, spiritual transformation in Mecca. There he met white people from all over the world who received him as a brother, and he realized that "white," as he had been using the word, didn't mean skin color as much as it meant attitudes and actions some whites held toward non-whites - but that not all whites were racist. At the time of his murder, he was anything but the hatemonger portrayed in the American press. Somehow, through the horrors that had been his life, he had become a spiritual leader. How had this been possible? ~ Jane Fonda

Fonda and Gary Cooper had the best sense of timing of all the actors I knew. ~ Gene Tierney

I must have had faith that day. When I went out, I was Henry Fonda again. An unemployed actor but a man. ~ Henry Fonda

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

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

I've worked really, really hard on myself to not be judgmental. ~ Jane Fonda

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

I spent a good deal of time going back over my childhood, my midlife, to try to understand who I was. We're supposed to be complete and whole, and you can't be whole if you're trying to be perfect. Doing a life review helped me get over the disease to please. ~ Jane Fonda

In a war, you wield every weapon you have, including words. Especially words. ~ Fonda Lee

I love Jet Li, he's really special. ~ Bridget Fonda

While not impossible, it is especially challenging for teenage parents to develop bonds with their children. A high percent of them were themselves children of teenage parents and have never experienced appropriate parenting. ~ Jane Fonda

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

I was raised on Bruce Lee. ~ Bridget Fonda

If you can intervene early in the lives of girls here and in other parts of the world, you can begin to change the prospects for the future. ~ Jane Fonda

I knew that my newfound activism and feminism was going to improve my acting, because I was seeing things not just in very narrow, individual, kind of Freudian terms, but seeing them in a much broader, societal way that was going to deepen and enrich my talent. ~ Jane Fonda

Aging is a staircase - the upward ascension of the human spirit, bringing us into wisdom, wholeness and authenticity. As you may know, the entire world operates on a universal law: entropy, the second law of thermodynamics. Entropy means that everything in the world, everything, is in a state of decline and decay, the arch. There's only one exception to this universal law, and that is the human spirit, which can continue to evolve upwards. ~ Jane Fonda

I want to die in the saddle. I love writing, producing, acting, directing. ~ Peter Fonda

I lived in France during the '60s. I was there from the early '60s until 1970, so my view of the '60s is more global. It was a time of tremendous transition, not only for America but for the whole world. ~ Jane Fonda

What many people failed to do then (and continue to fail to do today) is admit what happened, understand the context, and make sure those circumstances never happen again. The winter soldiers showed us that redemption is possible when truth is spoken. Nothing can change until we acknowledge what is - as I have learned over time. ~ Jane Fonda

I am not a do-gooder. I am a revolutionary. A revolutionary woman. ~ Jane Fonda

A mother who is obsessing about being thin and dieting and exercising is not going to be a very good mother. ~ Jane Fonda

It's much more important to be interested than to be interesting. ~ Jane Fonda

As I finished my rice, I sketched out the plot of a pornographic adventure film called The Massage Room. Sirien, a young girl from northern Thailand, falls hopelessly in love with Bob, an American student who winds up in the massage parlor by accident, dragged there by his buddies after a fatefully boozy evening. Bob doesn't touch her, he's happy just to look at her with his lovely, pale-blue eyes and tell her about his hometown - in North Carolina, or somewhere like that. They see each other several more times, whenever Sirien isn't working, but, sadly, Bob must leave to finish his senior year at Yale. Ellipsis. Sirien waits expectantly while continuing to satisfy the needs of her numerous clients. Though pure at heart, she fervently jerks off and sucks paunchy, mustached Frenchmen (supporting role for Gerard Jugnot), corpulent, bald Germans (supporting role for some German actor). Finally, Bob returns and tries to free her from her hell - but the Chinese mafia doesn't see things in quite the same light. Bob persuades the American ambassador and the president of some humanitarian organization opposed to the exploitation of young girls to intervene (supporting role for Jane Fonda). What with the Chinese mafia (hint at the Triads) and the collusion of Thai generals (political angle, appeal to democratic values), there would be a lot of fight scenes and chase sequences through the streets of Bangkok. At the end of the day, Bob carries her off. But in the penultimate scene, Siri ~ Michel Houellebecq

My problem was that I was blond. There were no heroes with blond hair. Robert Taylor and Henry Fonda, they all had dark hair. The only one I found was Van Johnson, who wasn't too cool. He was a nice, homely American boy. So I created my own image. It worked. ~ Michael Caine

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

Rituals are important. I get up. I take the dogs on a walk around to the front and then I pick up the papers. Then I walk around to the front door, then me and the two dogs come in the house and I give them treats. I make coffee. It's the regularity of these kinds of rituals that I find deeply satisfying. ~ Jane Fonda

The Horn placed his hands on her shoulders, and pulled her close, and laid his cheek against hers. "Heaven help me, Shae," he whispered into her ear. "I'm going to kill them all. ~ Fonda Lee

Being born with a sickly resemblance to Henry Fonda was the first of a long series of practical jokes of which destiny was to make Major Major the unhappy victim throughout his joyless life. Being born Major Major Major was the second ~ Joseph Heller

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

The sex is better and I understand life better. I don't want to be young again. ~ Jane Fonda

Revolution is an act of love; we are the children of revolution, born to be rebels. It runs in our blood. ~ Jane Fonda

Have you noticed how we are presented with the same lessons, over and over and over, before a tipping point is reached? The lessons we need to learn circle round us, closing in, until finally we are ready to take them in. Take them in. Those are the words that matter, because until I had embodied the lessons I was supposed to learn, absorbed them into the warp and woof of my being, they didn't "take"; they remained a head trip and didn't lead to changes in my behavior. ~ Jane Fonda

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

Drink water between meals instead of with them so that the digestive juices will not be diluted. ~ Jane Fonda

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

In 1968, when an actress made it to star status, she automatically rejected all roles that called for nudity. But Fonda broke with convention; she was a major actress who sought out roles that required her to disrobe. ~ Danny Peary

On May 7, a few weeks after the accident at Three-Mile Island, I was in Washington. I was there to refute some of that propaganda that Ralph Nader, Jane Fonda and their kind are spewing to the news media in their attempt to frighten people away from nuclear power. I am 71 years old, and I was working 20 hours a day. The strain was too much. The next day, I suffered a heart attack. You might say that I was the only one whose health was affected by that reactor near Harrisburg. No, that would be wrong. It was not the reactor. It was Jane Fonda. Reactors are not dangerous. ~ Edward Teller

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

We don't need to be perfect. We're not supposed to be perfect; we're supposed to be complete. And you can't be complete if you're trying to be perfect. ~ Jane Fonda

I was in my mid-40s. I was a bulimic, and I realized if I continue with this addiction of mine, I will not be able to continue doing my life. The older you get the more damage it does; it takes longer to recover from a binge. And it was very hard. ~ Jane Fonda

Most of us want to be strong, but we are not. ~ Jane Fonda

So much conspires to silence us - because our truths are inherently subversive. ~ Jane Fonda

What I learned is, we have to listen to each other, even when we don't agree, even when we think we hate each other. We have to listen to each others narratives. Not interrupt defensively, or with hostility, but really try to open our hearts and listen with empathy. I learned so much from that meeting. It was a very difficult thing to do and it was one of the best things that I ever did in my life. Look what scares you in the face, and try to understand it. Empathy, I have learned, is revolutionary. ~ Jane Fonda

One part of wisdom is knowing what you don't need anymore and letting it go. ~ Jane Fonda

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

I would have given up acting in a minute. I didn't like how it set me apart from other people. ~ Jane Fonda

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. ~ Jane Fonda

Every woman should eat for the long run so she can manage the short stops of crisis. ~ Jane Fonda

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

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

Just saw American Sniper. Powerful. Another view of Coming Home. Bradley Cooper sensational. Bravo Clint Eastwood. ~ Jane Fonda

I always seemed to disappoint them. They expected me to be different than Henry or exactly like Henry. I was neither. ~ Peter Fonda

The glow and energy of the healthy woman is the ultimate beauty, the only beauty that will last. ~ Jane Fonda

I see many more men who are feminist, or at least who have learned about life in the context of feminism. ~ Jane Fonda

Feminism is about ultimate, limitless reality ... ~ Jane Fonda

Beware of men who use words that relate pejoratively to females when describing the 'other side. ~ Jane Fonda

My love life is wonderful. ~ Jane Fonda

We understand that Nixon's aggression against Vietnam is a racist aggression, that the American war in Vietnam is a racist war, a white man's war ... We deplore that you are being used as cannon fodder for U.S. imperialism. We've seen photographs of American bombs and antipersonnel weapons being dropped, wantonly, accidentally perhaps, on your heads, on the heads of your comrades. ~ Jane Fonda

Winning means some kind of approval of the Establishment which means people will more readily accept me, may be less frightened of me and other people who speak out ~ Jane Fonda

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

I hate exercise. ~ Bridget Fonda

My life is a stairway to heaven, not a 'decline into decrepitude. ~ Jane Fonda

The more you treat yourself positively, the less you'll want or need to be negative. ~ Jane Fonda

True love, Hilo mused, was sensual and euphoric, but also painful and tyrannical, demanding obedience. ~ Fonda Lee

No one could have nicer sisters. No sibling problems there. ~ Henry Fonda

I'm afraid of making a mistake. I'm not totally neurotic, but I'm pretty neurotic about it. I'm as close to totally neurotic as you can get without being totally neurotic. ~ Bridget Fonda

Studios weren't banging on my door to offer me parts ... And I thought, well how am I ever going to make movies that speak to my heart and to my values? ~ Jane Fonda

If I have enough ego to say I'm a writer, a director, a producer, and an actor, I should have the energy and the knowledge to write a scene for this great actor named Henry Fonda and direct him in it and have it work. ~ Peter Fonda

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

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

Ask questions. Stay curious. It's much more important to stay interested than to be interesting. ~ Jane Fonda

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

I finally got it: empower girls and everything changes. ~ Jane Fonda

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

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

I always carry yeast flakes and bran with me when I travel. ~ Jane Fonda

The challenge is not to be perfect ... it's to be whole ~ Jane Fonda

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

Women are not forgiven for ageing ~ Jane Fonda