Top 200 Jane Fonda Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “The capacity of young people to persevere, even under the most adverse conditions, never ceases to amaze me.”

— Jane Fonda

152. “Our young people are assets to be cultivated and nurtured; let’s begin treating them that way.”

— Jane Fonda

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

— Jane Fonda

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

— Jane Fonda

155. “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

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

— Jane Fonda

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

— Jane Fonda

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

— Jane Fonda

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

— Jane Fonda

160. “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

161. “I find that arduous physical labor can jump-start my thought process.”

— Jane Fonda

162. “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

163. “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

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

— Jane Fonda

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

— Jane Fonda

166. “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

167. “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

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

— Jane Fonda

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

— Jane Fonda

170. “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

171. “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

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

— Jane Fonda

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

— Jane Fonda

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

— Jane Fonda

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

— Jane Fonda

176. “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

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

— Jane Fonda

178. “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

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

— Jane Fonda

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

— Jane Fonda

181. “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

182. “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

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

— Jane Fonda

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

— Jane Fonda

185. “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

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

— Jane Fonda

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

— Jane Fonda

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

— Jane Fonda

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

— Jane Fonda

190. “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

191. “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

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

— Jane Fonda

193. “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

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

— Jane Fonda

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

— Jane Fonda

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

— Jane Fonda

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

— Jane Fonda

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

— Jane Fonda

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

— Jane Fonda

200. “It’s hard for women at my age in Hollywood, but I’m not discouraged.”

— Jane Fonda