Jane Fonda > Quotes

“When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed.”
― Jane Fonda

“The challenge is not to be perfect…it’s to be whole”
― Jane Fonda

“You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don't find easy, or learn an awful lot very fast, which is what I tried to do.”
― Jane Fonda

“If you allow yourself, you can become stronger in the very places that you've been broken.”
― Jane Fonda

“It's never to late- never to late to change your life,never to late to be happy”
― Jane Fonda

“Ask questions. Stay curious. It’s much more important to stay interested than to be interesting.”
― Jane Fonda

“The bravest soldiers aren't unafraid, but they're the ones who are able to harness their fear on behalf of courage.”
― Jane Fonda

“In psychologist Marion Woodman’s Leaving My Father’s House I read: “When humans suffer they are vulnerable. Within this vulnerability lives the humility that allows flesh to soften into the sounds of the soul.” Maybe this was what was happening to me. I felt lighter, as if a space had been cleared around me allowing coincidences (God’s way of remaining anonymous) to manifest. Maybe these coincidences had been happening all along and I just hadn’t been open to them. Now it was as though I were being led to them.”
― Jane Fonda, My Life So Far

“I don't want my wrinkles taken away - I don't want to look like everyone else.”
― Jane Fonda

“A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.”
― Jane Fonda

“If you allow yourself you can become stronger in the very places that you've been broken.”
― Jane Fonda

“you can be different if u be u”
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“We are not meant to be perfect; we are meant to be whole.”
― Jane Fonda

“I think most of us have many personas inside us at the outset, but over time we lean to the one that is dominant and the others atrophy for lack of use. The difference with actors is that we are paid to become all the people inside us and to bring into us all the people we may have met along the way. Thus we remain instinctively aware of, unsettled by, curious about, empathetic toward, and eager to display all those potential beings we carry. Of all these, the empathy part is the most important and is, I believe, why actors—the good ones—tend to be open, progressive creatures: We are asked to get inside the skin of “other,” to feel with “other,” to understand “other.” Being able to see from this “other” point of view gives actors compassion.”
― Jane Fonda, My Life So Far

“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, My Life So Far

“You don’t need to,” he replied. “You’re already saved.” And he went on to tell me that the original Greek meaning of the word saved meant that a person was whole.”
― Jane Fonda, My Life So Far

“In this country, the only way a minority can get anything done is to make a little noise.”
― Jane Fonda

“Perhaps you think that by intimacy I mean sex, so allow me to clarify. Sex can be intimate but isn’t necessarily so; sometimes it’s just the pleasurable stimulation of genitalia. By intimacy I mean an attunement between two people who, despite each other’s evident flaws, open their hearts fully to each other. This openness makes them vulnerable, so trust is key. So is self-love: It’s impossible to be truly intimate with someone if you don’t like yourself.”
― Jane Fonda, My Life So Far

“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, My Life So Far

“I am still baffled by those who feel that criticizing America is unpatriotic, a view increasingly being adopted in the United States since 9/11 as an excuse to render suspect what has always been an American right. An active, brave, outspoken (and heard) citizenry is essential to a healthy democracy.”
― Jane Fonda, My Life So Far

“Nothing can change until we acknowledge what is, as I have learned over time.”
― Jane Fonda, My Life So Far

“If you allow yourself, you can become stronger in the very places that you've been broken”
― Jane Fonda

“I needed to pay attention, to be ready to step through and descend into it, whatever it was. It felt archetypal. Something in me was being slain in the fires of pain so that some new thing could be born. I knew it and went with it, and in the alchemy of my pain, like flowers whose seeds open only in the presence of fire, tendrils of something new began to sprout. Pain for me was a Trojan horse, penetrating the protective walls I’d erected around my heart, bearing within it hints of a future I might never have awakened to had I tried to numb myself with busyness.”
― Jane Fonda, My Life So Far

“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, My Life So Far

“Where identity is not fixed, performance becomes a floating anchor.” And could I perform! Making the unreal seem real, the sad seem happy, hoping that somewhere along the way it would all work out, that I would discover who I was. Meantime I had an anchor.”
― Jane Fonda, My Life So Far

“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, My Life So Far

“The most incredible beauty and the most satisfying way of life come from affirming your own uniqueness.”
― Jane Fonda

“No Pain No Gain”
― Jane Fonda

“documents out of RAND. As Ellsberg wrote in his 2002 book, Secrets, “What I had in my safe at RAND was seven thousand pages of documentary evidence of lying, by four presidents”
― Jane Fonda, My Life So Far

“When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed. When you have to work real hard to re-create the pain, and you can't quite get there, that's when you're better.”
― Jane Fonda