Jane Fonda - biography

“A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.”

“Acting is frivolous.  But frivolity is a big part of our society.  So we might as well relax and enjoy it.”

“I still get nervous about work.  I feel like a virgin, as if it’s my first film.  It’s great at my age still to be able to get scared.”

“I’m an assistant storyteller.  It’s like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but I’m waiting on six million people a week, if I’m lucky.”

“I was terrified when I turned 30.  I was pregnant and had the mumps and Faye Dunaway was just coming out in Bonnie and Clyde.  I thought: Oh my God, I’ll never work again.  I’m old!”

“America is where I belong.  This is where it has to happen.”

“Men are not the enemy.  Women must join with men to form a broader alliance.”

“At Warner Brothers for my first screentest, I had to wear falsies.  Jack Warner told me: You’ll never become a movie star if you’re flat chested.”

“I don’t want my wrinkles taken away - I don’t want to look like everyone else.”

“I like to feel close to the bone.”

“I’m perfect.  The areas that I need help on are not negotiable.  They have to do with gravity.”

“I see every movie I do.  I don’t ever see them twice if I can help it.”

“Studios underestimate audiences, feeling they won’t be interested in anything reflecting a different background.  Some of my most successful films were the ones I was advised not to make.”

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

“It’s never too late - never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.”

“People change after they’re married.  They die and become so very bourgeois.”

“Telling lies and showing off to get attention are mistakes I made that I don’t want my kids to make.”

“There was a time when certain people wanted to put me in jail.  Now they’ve gone to jail and I’m still working.”

“Today I’d be a dyed blonde, a numb and dumb pill-popping star, if I hadn’t taken up a cause.  I could very well be dead like Marilyn.  Not through drugs but dead just the same.”

“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.”

“When you can’t remember why you’re hurt, that’s when you’re healed.”

“I don’t think there’s anything more important than making peace before it’s too late.  And it almost always falls to the child to try to move toward the parent.”

“Love, when I had it, was a passion which left me lonely and bored.”

“Ted needs someone to be there 100 per cent of the time.  He thinks that’s love.  It’s not love - it’s babysitting.”

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

“Politics?  I’m much more middle of the road than most people think.”

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

“A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring.”

“You can run the office without a boss, but you can’t run an office without the secretaries.”

“As a child, I was called Lady Jane by relatives.  My middle name is Seymour.”

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

“If you’re ever in a situation where you’re not getting served or you can’t get what you need, just cry.”

“Lillian Hellman is a homely woman, yet she moves as if she were Marilyn Monroe.”

“Secretly, I think [Robert Redford] is afraid of women.  He likes to tell them what to do.  He likes them to be subservient.  He treated me as if I were an extra or something.”

Jane Fonda has appeared in the following films:
Tall Story (1960)
Walk on the Wild Side (1962)
The Chapman Report (1962)
Period of Adjustment (1962)
In the Cool of the Day (1963)
Sunday in New York (1963)
Les Félins (1964)
La Ronde (1964)
Cat Ballou (1965)
The Chase (1966)
La Curée (1966)
Any Wednesday (1966)
Hurry Sundown (1967)
Barefoot in the Park (1967)
Histoires extraordinaires (1968)
Barbarella (1968)
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (1969)
Klute (1971)
Tout va bien (1972)
Letter to Jane (1972)
Steelyard Blues (1973)
A Doll’s House (1973)
The Blue Bird (1976)
Fun with Dick and Jane (1977)
Julia (1977)
Coming Home (1978)
Comes a Horseman (1978)
California Suite (1978)
The China Syndrome (1979)
The Electric Horseman (1979)
Nine to Five (1980)
On Golden Pond (1981)
Rollover (1981)
Agnes of God (1985)
The Morning After (1986)
Old Gringo (1989)
Stanley & Iris (1990)
Monster-in-Law (2005)
Sir! No Sir! (2005)
Georgia Rule (2007)
Peace, Love, & Misunderstanding (2011)
Et si on vivait tous ensemble? (2012)