Jane Fonda
Jane Fonda
Jane Fondais an American actress, writer, political activist, former fashion model and fitness guru. She is a two-time Academy Award winner and two time BAFTA Award winner. In 2014, she was the recipient of the American Film Institute AFI Life Achievement Award...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth21 December 1937
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
powerful talking soul
I found that you're more powerful when talking from your soul.
be-good
When you're told to be good, you have to get rid of whatever is bad. I sure identify with that.
older-women jokes
When you're an older woman [in a movie], you are the brunt of the joke.
ifs i-can
If I can change, anybody can change.
judgmental hard
I've worked really, really hard on myself to not be judgmental.
heart doors speak
Studios weren't banging on my door to offer me parts... And I thought, well how am I ever going to make movies that speak to my heart and to my values?
writing scary up-to-you
Movies are collective, cooperative endeavours, which I like a lot. But writing is all up to you, it's what's so scary; it's just you and that page. But I really like it a lot.
names trying nuance
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.
running hate office
I hate to create cynicism about politicians. We just need to invade. Regular people need to run for office and keep their balls and ovaries intact.
real character thinking
Think of anger as a muscle. The way you express anger isn't the way that I do, or you. If you have a good director, you will find that he's getting you to use an entirely different muscle that you never even knew you had - it's real hard and sore, then after a while it becomes normal. And you discover all these new muscles when you enter a new character - that's what a director does for you.
television welcome hard
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.
heart matter spite
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.
girl pretty-girl enough
I wasn't pretty enough to be the pretty girl and I wasn't unattractive enough to be the dorky girl.
sleep together roles
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.