Quotes by 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.”

“Telling lies and showing off to get attention are mistakes I made that I dont want my kids to make.”

“If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.”

“Ted needs someone to be there 100% of the time. He thinks thats love. Its not love - its babysitting.”

“To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.”

“Women are not forgiven for aging. Robert Redfords lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles.”

“My husband said he wanted to have a relationship with a redhead, so I dyed my hair.”

“You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I dont find easy, or learn an awful lot very fast which is what I tried to do.”

“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 ones inner stain, the fatal blot that from the beginning had marked one for ultimate aloneness.”

“Working in Hollywood does give one a certain expertise in the field of prostitution.”

“Im an assistant storyteller. Its like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but Im waiting on six million people a week, if Im lucky. [On being an actor]”

“Its never too late -- never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.”

“I dont know if a country where the people are so ignorant of reality and of history, if you can call that a free world.”

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

“The reason why I left 15 years ago was because it was becoming agony for me, ... But Im a very different person, so I wondered if it would be fun again. You know, why not?”

“If youre ever in a situation where youre not getting served or you cant get what you need, just cry”

“If you don’t have a parent or an adult, a teacher or a mentor … really see you, really love you, Yes, there are things you do I don’t like, but you’re fantastic, you’re good enough. I love you. If that never happens to a child, the child assumes it’s her fault and tries to compensate for it,”

“The script came along and it was funny and it gave me the chance to play an outrageous character and Ive never done anything before quite like her,”

“Im proud I went to North Vietnam because Nixon was lying to us,”

“what the right wing has done to Sheehan is despicable.”