Top 200 Jane Fonda Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “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

152. “When I left the West Coast I was a liberal. When I landed in New York I was a revolutionary.”

— Jane Fonda

153. “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

154. “Our youth deserve the opportunity to complete their high school and college education, free of early parenthood. Their future children deserve the opportunity to grow up in financially and emotionally stable homes. Our communities benefit from healthy, productive, well-prepared young people.”

— Jane Fonda

155. “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

156. “The absolute minimum for effective exercise is three times a week on alternate days for at least half an hour.”

— Jane Fonda

157. “I am convinced that we become what we do.”

— Jane Fonda

158. “I don’t like the word ‘calculated’ because it sounds pejorative. Intentional. Intentional is better, I think. Wild in passion and intentional in expression.”

— Jane Fonda

159. “I feel like when I was an adolescent, and felt so unworthy of love and so empty, I moved outside of myself.”

— Jane Fonda

160. “I don’t want to die without knowing who I am.”

— Jane Fonda

161. “Beware of men who use words that relate pejoratively to females when describing the ’other side.”

— Jane Fonda

162. “Being Henry Fonda’s daughter got me started. But it didn’t keep me working.”

— Jane Fonda

163. “When you’re told to be good, you have to get rid of whatever is bad. I sure identify with that.”

— Jane Fonda

164. “I’m not sure that I would have become a Christian if I had continued to live in Hollywood because the notion wouldn’t have occurred to me.”

— Jane Fonda

165. “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.”

— Jane Fonda

166. “Ted needs someone to be there 100% of the time. He thinks that’s love. It’s not love – it’s babysitting.”

— Jane Fonda

167. “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.”

— Jane Fonda

168. “Everyone should know that feeling of overcoming fear and mastering something. People who aren’t taught that become soggy.”

— Jane Fonda

169. “In spite of the incident, my experience in Kansas City was wonderful and I thank all the warm and supportive people, including so many veterans, who came to welcome me last night.”

— Jane Fonda

170. “Every woman should eat for the long run so she can manage the short stops of crisis.”

— Jane Fonda

171. “Teach girls to read and to work at something where they can bring home money – and the entire balance of power shifts.”

— Jane Fonda

172. “I had it in my head. I thought I had it in my heart – in my body – but I didn’t; not really. I couldn’t. It was too scary, like stepping off a cliff without knowing if there was a trampoline below. It meant doing life differently.”

— Jane Fonda

173. “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

174. “I wasn’t a hippie and I wasn’t even a bohemian. I was extremely earnest and serious.”

— Jane Fonda

175. “I was raised in the ’50s. I was taught by my father that how I looked was all that mattered.”

— Jane Fonda

176. “My mother killed herself when I was 12. I won’t complete that relationship. But I can try to understand her.”

— Jane Fonda

177. “One of the wonderful things about being an actor is that every director is different.”

— Jane Fonda

178. “If you’re ever in a situation where you’re not getting served or you can’t get what you need, just cry.”

— Jane Fonda

179. “Emotionality is really easy for me. My father always said that Fondas can cry at a good steak.”

— Jane Fonda

180. “Find the balance between the calories you take in and the ones you burn up.”

— Jane Fonda

181. “I’ve worked really, really hard on myself to not be judgmental.”

— Jane Fonda

182. “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

183. “I think the entire world is going to be united against us.”

— Jane Fonda

184. “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

185. “We cannot elect men to office who are afraid of premature evacuation.”

— Jane Fonda

186. “Good physical condition is protection. Our strength comes from our body.”

— Jane Fonda

187. “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

188. “Female listeners are leaving traditional talk radio because of the rough-edged, shouting nature of it. Women want more light and less heat.”

— Jane Fonda

189. “When I was at the age when you were supposed to be glamorous if you were a movie star, I wasn’t.”

— Jane Fonda

190. “I’d like to think that I have integrity.”

— Jane Fonda

191. “Most of us want to be strong, but we are not.”

— Jane Fonda

192. “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

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

— Jane Fonda

194. “Getting fit is a political act – you are taking charge of your life.”

— Jane Fonda

195. “We’ve got to establish a socialistic economic structure that will limit private, profit-oriented businesses.”

— Jane Fonda

196. “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

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

— Jane Fonda

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

— Jane Fonda

199. “If I can change, anybody can change.”

— Jane Fonda

200. “We all, in fact, carry so many people inside us; the only difference is that actors get paid for it, and we sort of spruce it up a bit.”

— Jane Fonda