Jane Fonda Love Quotes & Sayings

Parents are supposed to give the child back to herself with love. If they've got duct tape over their eyes because of narcissism, it doesn't happen. — Jane Fonda

I never wanted to be an actor. My dad was an actor, and he never brought joy home, so I didn't view it as something that I would want to do. But I got fired as a secretary, and then I started studying, I started doing it just to earn money. And it took me a long time to learn to love it. And what I loved was telling a story. I tried to avoid making plays or films that weren't telling a story that I felt was important. I discovered in the process that it makes you more empathic because you have to enter someone else's reality and learn to see through many other people's eyes. — Jane Fonda

Real love and intimacy can be much more possible when you're older. — Jane Fonda

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

I love mistakes because it's the only way you learn. — Jane Fonda

I don't want to make a cheap analysis, but when you have, like I did, a father incapable of showing emotion, who spends his life telling you that no one will love you if you aren't perfect, it leaves scars. — Jane Fonda

I bought all those [fitness] videos
Richard Simmons, Jane Fonda. I love to sit and eat cookies and watch 'em. — Dolly Parton

I love to direct my daughter, and act with her, and we both want to work with Jane again. — Peter Fonda

My love life is wonderful. — Jane Fonda

I like playing that character who brings love to people, who puts people in a place where they're apt to encounter love. — Jane Fonda

So I grew up feeling that I wasn't good enough, and that no-one would love me unless I was perfect. But no-one's perfect, we're not meant to be perfect. We're meant to be complete. But it's hard to be complete if you're trying to be perfect, so you kind of become disembodied. And I spent a lot of my life that way.""And if you don't own your strength ... Women like me tend to always look over their shoulder to see who ... "Who's the leader? Who's the smart one?" Never thinking it might be ME. Took a long time for me to get over that. — Jane Fonda

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

The vulnerability of opening your heart fully and deeply to another is terrifying, but at a point in my 50s, I realized that I had to step up to the plate. — Jane Fonda

Ted needs someone to be there 100% of the time. He thinks that's love. It's not love - it's babysitting. — Jane Fonda

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

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