Jane Fonda Quotes & Sayings (Page 9)

“I'm not sure that I would have become a Christian if I had continued to live in Hollywood because the notion wouldn't have occurred to me.”

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

“We are living on average today 34 years longer than our great-grandparents did.”

“When I was at the age when you were supposed to be glamorous if you were a movie star, I wasn't.”

“I spent a good deal of time going back over my childhood, my midlife, to try to understand who I was. We're supposed to be complete and whole, and you can't be whole if you're trying to be perfect. Doing a life review helped me get over the disease to please.”

“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.”

“I lived in France during the '60s. I was there from the early '60s until 1970, so my view of the '60s is more global. It was a time of tremendous transition, not only for America but for the whole world.”

“The '60s may be idealized in the movie from a cultural point of view, but the decade was all about discord and a big generational split that was very painful.”