You don't learn from successes; you don't learn from awards; you don't learn from celebr...
JANE FONDA We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You'...
JANE FONDA Instead of drifting along like a leaf in a river, understand who you are and how you come across to ...
JANE FONDA Seek women mentors. If you're a businesswoman, look at the TEDx conferences. There's a lot o...
JANE FONDA If we as a nation are to break the cycle of poverty, crime and the growing underclass of young peopl...
JANE FONDA You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.
JANE FONDA Telling lies and showing off to get attention are the mistakes I made that I don't want my kids to m...
JANE FONDA A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.
JANE FONDA You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don't find easy, or learn an awful ...
JANE FONDA My husband said he wanted to have a relationship with a redhead, so I dyed my hair.
JANE FONDA When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed.
JANE FONDA It's never too late -- never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.
JANE FONDA To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.
JANE FONDA If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that...
JANE FONDA The capacity of young people to persevere, even under the most adverse conditions, never ceases to a...
JANE FONDA I've been accused of being too flexible, too willing to mold myself to men, and that's somet...
JANE FONDA It's about time we make the well-being of our young people more important than ideology and poli...
JANE FONDA If adolescent pregnancy prevention is to become a priority, then our strategy, as advocates, must co...
JANE FONDA It's never too late - never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.
JANE FONDA Ted needs someone to be there 100% of the time. He thinks that's love. It's not love - it...
JANE FONDA I was in my mid-40s. I was a bulimic, and I realized if I continue with this addiction of mine, I wi...
JANE FONDA Our youth deserve the opportunity to complete their high school and college education, free of early...
JANE FONDA Our young people are assets to be cultivated and nurtured; let's begin treating them that way.
JANE FONDA We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the su...
JANE FONDA Women are not forgiven for aging. Robert Redford's lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles.
JANE FONDA The '60s may be idealized in the movie from a cultural point of view, but the decade was all abo...
JANE FONDA A mother who is obsessing about being thin and dieting and exercising is not going to be a very good...
JANE FONDA They can't hurt you unless you let them.
JANE FONDA Women are not forgiven for aging. Bob Redford's lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles.
JANE FONDA A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. That disgusts me.
JANE FONDA Feminism is not just about women; it's about letting all people lead fuller lives.
JANE FONDA It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become s...
JANE FONDA People think actresses find public speaking easy, and it's not easy at all; we're used to hi...
JANE FONDA If you're ever in a situation where you're not getting served or you can't get what you need, just c...
JANE FONDA When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed.
JANE FONDA Working in Hollywood does give one a certain expertise in the field of prostitution.
JANE FONDA I'm an assistant storyteller. It's like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but I'm waiting o...
JANE FONDA We're not meant to be perfect; we're meant to be whole.
JANE FONDA Ted needs someone to be there 100% of the time. He thinks that's love. It's not love - it's babysitt...
JANE FONDA Yeah, but I can look at it now and laugh at it, and find it very charming,
JANE FONDA A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring.
JANE FONDA what the right wing has done to Sheehan is despicable.
JANE FONDA promulgate their right wing, narrow world view. It really doesn't have anything to do with me and it...
JANE FONDA I don't think there's anything more important than making peace before it's too late. And it almost ...
JANE FONDA He's my favorite ex-husband. We get along great. I love to fish, and he has some beautiful property ...
JANE FONDA My mother killed herself when I was 12. I won't complete that relationship. But I can try to underst...
JANE FONDA I'm proud I went to North Vietnam because Nixon was lying to us,
JANE FONDA I wish that I’d been able to have a class like this when I had my first kid, 'cause I was not a go...
JANE FONDA If that's what he wanted, I'd give it to him in spades. I wasn't going to write about it. I got enou...
JANE FONDA Where Have All the Flowers Gone?
JANE FONDA We need to get a majority on the school board,
JANE FONDA I don't know if a country where the people are so ignorant of reality and of history, if you can cal...
JANE FONDA The reason why I left 15 years ago was because it was becoming agony for me, ... But I'm a very diff...
JANE FONDA If you don’t have a parent or an adult, a teacher or a mentor … really see you, really love you,...
JANE FONDA Telling lies and showing off to get attention are mistakes I made that I don't want my kids to make.
JANE FONDA I have a confidence about my life that comes from standing tall on my own two feet.
JANE FONDA I've done four videos for older people under my new brand, Prime Time, and the missing link was ...
JANE FONDA I never was a hippie! I went to India because so many friends like Mia Farrow and the Beatles were g...
JANE FONDA In my mind it takes a special kind of courage to risk your life in another country, for your own cou...
JANE FONDA This was an organization of men who risked their lives in Vietnam, who considered themselves totally...
JANE FONDA I don't want my wrinkles taken away - I don't want to look like everyone else.
JANE FONDA Contraception is important. Making contraception available doesn't lead to promiscuity. But much mor...
JANE FONDA In spite of the incident, my experience in Kansas City was wonderful and I thank all the warm and su...
JANE FONDA I would be a distraction--and the vacuum has been filled. That said, I plan to speak out and write s...
JANE FONDA No, no, for a long time, I couldn't look at it, ... I thought that it was politically incorrect, you...
JANE FONDA My Life So Far
JANE FONDA The script came along and it was funny and it gave me the chance to play an outrageous character and...
JANE FONDA But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself.
JANE FONDA I like being a supporting actress. I don't have to show up everyday. I was still writing the book, s...
JANE FONDA Just watching Bette Davis on the screen was empowering to women, I think. Certainly was to me. It wa...
JANE FONDA Some people are surprised that the Republicans are waging a war on women, or that they voted against...
JANE FONDA Real love and intimacy can be much more possible when you're older.
JANE FONDA I took every chance I could to meet with U.S. soldiers. I talked with them and read the books they g...
JANE FONDA Telling lies and showing off to get attention are mistakes I made that I don't want my kids to m...
JANE FONDA I have people in my life who will say, 'Honey, you're trying too hard.' I like being sau...
JANE FONDA I remember saying goodbye to my father the night he left to join the Navy. He didn't have to. He...
JANE FONDA The reality is sobering: in the United States one in three girls will become pregnant before age 20,...
JANE FONDA We can no longer waste time and money. Every day, more than 2,000 girls in America, age 15-19, give ...
JANE FONDA The most important thing to do as you age is to stay physically active. Lots of people just throw in...
JANE FONDA I always had a penchant for falling in love. Every time I found myself without a mate, I fell into a...
JANE FONDA I would love to play a superhero. I sometimes walk around thinking, 'If I were a superhero, what...
OLGA FONDA I began to study martial arts because it was a great form of exercise, and I knew it would help my a...
OLGA FONDA I love all sports! I'm always impressed by athletes. I also love watching the Olympic Games. In ...
OLGA FONDA I am a little old fashioned, and I love to have my scripts printed out. There is something magical a...
OLGA FONDA The 'Agent X' set was never boring. During the first few days, I had to adjust to the loud n...
OLGA FONDA I love watching action. I remember watching Angelina Jolie in 'Tomb Raider,' and I was like ...
OLGA FONDA I moved about 45 minutes from West Hollywood, and I live surrounded by nature and the wilderness, bu...
OLGA FONDA I didn't particularly change my name to Fonda because I knew who Fondas were. It's still goi...
OLGA FONDA I was very shy, but when I performed, I felt like I was in my own little world. I became more confid...
OLGA FONDA So many girls trying to be models, like, 'Oh my god, I want to be a model!' Nobody really kn...
OLGA FONDA For the longest time, my older brother told me he was teaching me self-defense, but now that I'm...
OLGA FONDA The best actors do not let the wheels show.
HENRY FONDA It's wonderful to me that bees have this simple, age-old thing going on.
PETER FONDA Henry Fonda's son: That's how everybody identified me until Easy Rider came along. Good old ...
PETER FONDA People ask me from time to time what it was like growing up with Henry Fonda as my father. I say, Ev...
PETER FONDA I've been close to Bette Davis for thirty-eight years - and I have the cigarette burns to prove ...
HENRY FONDA It's very easy to get excited about a job, but it's a big commitment because you do it and t...
BRIDGET FONDA It took us a long time to find out that we had been lied to by our parents' generation. The mora...
PETER FONDA My whole damn family was nice. I don't think I've imagined it. It's true. Maybe it has t...
HENRY FONDA This is great for me to be able to join my father. I certainly hope my daughter and my son, who is a...
PETER FONDA Never let go of it.
PETER FONDA Her heart was in the right place, but her head wasn't.
PETER FONDA I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality.
PETER FONDA Getting out from under the shadow of Henry Fonda was difficult.
PETER FONDA If I have enough ego to say I'm a writer, a director, a producer, and an actor, I should have th...
PETER FONDA I must have had faith that day. When I went out, I was Henry Fonda again. An unemployed actor but a ...
HENRY FONDA It has to do with the fact that Ford, for all his greatness, is an Irish egomaniac, as anyone who kn...
HENRY FONDA I don't trust anybody who didn't inhale.
PETER FONDA I truly miss the genius of the music of John Lennon, as I'm sure everybody does.
PETER FONDA Ford didn't know what to do with Mister Roberts that wasn't repeating what was successful in...
HENRY FONDA I knew Henry Fonda was my father, but I didn't know who I was. They all thought of me as Henry F...
PETER FONDA I'm afraid of making a mistake. I'm not totally neurotic, but I'm pretty neurotic about it. I'm as c...
BRIDGET FONDA I've been close to Bette Davis for thirty-eight years - and I have the cigarette burns to prove it.
HENRY FONDA I was famous from birth
PETER FONDA Nudity is who people are at the most interesting point of the evening, when they take off their prot...
BRIDGET FONDA Good God, look at the Orioles. I always knew Baltimore was a sneaky town.
HENRY FONDA I don't think there's anybody better when he wants to be good.
HENRY FONDA I found myself facing a Christian Science Reading Room. My God! It had been eight years. There had n...
HENRY FONDA I don't talk about who I'm dating because when you break up, you wind up reliving it in the ...
BRIDGET FONDA Brando's a family friend. His mother gave my father a shot to be in a play at the Omaha Communit...
PETER FONDA I can be pretty nasty. Not 'mean' nasty, but nasty by your parents' standards. But not by my parents...
BRIDGET FONDA My thinking was scrambled when Sullivan and I separated. Something happened to me that had never hap...
HENRY FONDA I don't know what was in his mind, but I do know Ford was stricken by what he had done, by hitti...
HENRY FONDA When I arrived in the U.S., I knew little English and didn't have any friends. The neighborhood ...
OLGA FONDA Today we are actually redoing a house. Cleaning it up and repainting and getting it ready to place a...
FONDA RUSH It's very touching when people come from out of our community into Meridian and Lauderdale County to...
FONDA RUSH From late March through April, that will be our heaviest schedule. We'll have several houses going, ...
FONDA RUSH You can have a plan, but you have to be flexible. Every day is unpredictable, and you just have to g...
JANE KRAKOWSKI Every savage can dance.
JANE AUSTEN I'm not driven by killer ambition. I'm not a workaholic. I'm a good team player. I don&#...
JANE PAULEY To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.
JANE AUSTEN At the end of the day, I let myself have a glass of wine.
JANE SEYMOUR Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of wome...
JANE ADDAMS There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the di...
JANE JACOBS A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
JANE AUSTEN If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.
JANE AUSTEN One man's style must not be the rule of another's.
JANE AUSTEN My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conv...
JANE AUSTEN The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and i...
JANE ADDAMS Education in this country is about how to maintain the status quo and to perpetuate racism.
JANE ELLIOT The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupi...
JANE AUSTEN Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. It is not fair. He has fame and ...
JANE AUSTEN Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be...
JANE AUSTEN Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.
JANE ADDAMS I wanted to - any chance I had to dress up as a boy, like Halloween, I would be a pirate or a ghost ...
JANE LYNCH You can't look at a sleeping cat and be tense.
JANE PAULEY I am very busy, life is very busy, and I was, I think, a somewhat lazy friend. I love them, I know t...
JANE GREEN Keep smiling - it takes 10 years off!
JANE BIRKIN Sometimes, a novel is like a train: the first chapter is a comfortable seat in an attractive carriag...
JANE SMILEY Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
JANE AUSTEN Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
JANE AUSTEN To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
JANE AUSTEN Gamers always believe that an epic win is possible and that it's always worth trying, and trying...
JANE MCGONIGAL Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
JANE AUSTEN Somebody has to wear the black hat and give the audience someone to shake their fists at. They want ...
JANE ELLIOT I did this Super-8 film at art school called 'Tissues,' this black comedy about a family who...
JANE CAMPION I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, wi...
JANE AUSTEN My husband used to take care of the business part of this, and after he died I found I wasn't re...
JANE HADDAM The fact that I even get in Broadway shows is, to me, still amazing, but then to win a Tony was just...
JANE KRAKOWSKI I thought," Shad said slowly, "that she was offended if you referred to Blind Seer or Elation as her...
JANE LINDSKOLD After a day of watching the two-legs interact from within their midst, she was certain that they cou...
JANE LINDSKOLD The main reason why historians have skated over the relationship of Victorian PMs with the press is ...
JANE RIDLEY I had a baby at 19 and was a grandmother by 39. Now, my children lend me their children to take them...
JANE BIRKIN The only siblings I have are half-siblings. My nuclear family would have been an extra-suffocating t...
JANE SMILEY A diagnosis is burden enough without being burdened by secrecy and shame.
JANE PAULEY It's always helpful to have somebody help buoy you in difficult times and problem-solve with and...
JANE POYNTER When my father died, my mother came back from being Mrs. Birkin to being Judy Campbell. She was a st...
JANE BIRKIN I have a theory that you can tell what the head of a company is like by the people who work there. I...
JANE GREEN Don't let anyone discourage you from writing. If you become a professional writer, there are ple...
JANE YOLEN Melanoma is not the most common of skin cancers, but it is the most dangerous if not found in the ea...
JANE GREEN Torture is illegal, both in the U.S. and abroad. So - and that is true for the Bush administration a...
JANE MAYER I got my love of animals from the Dr. Doolittle books and my love of Africa from the Tarzan novels. ...
JANE GOODALL I think if you go from show to show without doing that big PR blitz it's helpful because people ...
JANE CURTIN Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any...
JANE GOODSELL I love nothing better than to get all the nuts and bolts out of the way - show up on time, with line...
JANE ELLIOT I was on 'Murder She Wrote' with Angela Lansbury. She was fantastic... she was lovely to eve...
JANE BADLER No baby boomer has a completely original idea, but after 13 years on 'Today' and another 11 ...
JANE PAULEY There are other types of public appearances a writer does in addition to book signings and readings....
JANE LINDSKOLD I loved 'Boogie Nights.' That was a great movie, and I had a lot of fun doing that.
THOMAS JANE Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship a...
JANE HARRISON Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its ori...
JANE PORTER A lot of actresses I've worked with recently have done so much Botox their faces don't look ...
JANE SEYMOUR I should think he must be rather a dressy man for his time of life. Such a number of looking-glasses...
JANE AUSTEN I left Montana in Spring of 1866, for Utah, arriving at Salt Lake city during the summer.
CALAMITY JANE We remained in Texas leading a quiet home life until 1889.
CALAMITY JANE While in El Paso, I met Mr. Clinton Burk, a native of Texas, who I married in August 1885.
CALAMITY JANE During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
CALAMITY JANE I was in Deadwood at the time and on hearing of the killing made my way at once to the scene of the ...
CALAMITY JANE On October 28th, 1887, I became the mother of a girl baby, the very image of its father, at least th...
CALAMITY JANE Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden ...
CALAMITY JANE As many of the riders before me had been held up and robbed of their packages, mail and money that t...
CALAMITY JANE We were ordered out to quell an uprising of the Indians, and were out for several days, had numerous...
CALAMITY JANE When I joined Custer I donned the uniform of a soldier. It was a bit awkward at first but I soon got...
CALAMITY JANE It was considered the most dangerous route in the Hills, but as my reputation as a rider and quick s...
CALAMITY JANE By the time we reached Virginia City I was considered a remarkable good shot and a fearless rider fo...
CALAMITY JANE I actually failed my first license test. I got an automatic fail. I guess I had been doing well but ...
JANE LEVY You want, in a sense, to relate to the main character, so often, the main character POV is a bit mor...
JANE GOLDMAN Thank God I've never had the sort of intense fame that means you can't walk up the road. Tha...
JANE ASHER What strange creatures brothers are!
JANE AUSTEN ...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
JANE AUSTEN