Quotes from Jane Fonda

You don't learn from successes; you don't learn from awards; you don't learn from celebrity; you only learn from wounds and scars and mistakes and failures. And that's the truth.

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

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.

The people who did you wrong or who didn't quite know how to show up, you forgive them. And forgiving them allows you to forgive yourself too.

A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.

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.

I love films that make you feel good when you come out and, in my opinion, there's not enough of them these days.

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

I've done four videos for older people under my new brand, Prime Time, and the missing link was yoga. I'm aiming it for older people - people who have never worked out or who are recovering from a surgery and have to start slow. It's easy, you can't get hurt, it's very doable, and I've done it in ten-minute segments.

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 more you treat yourself positively, the less you'll want or need to be negative.

If we as a nation are to break the cycle of poverty, crime and the growing underclass of young people ill equipped to be productive citizens, we need to not only implement effective programs to prevent teen pregnancy, but we must also help those who have already given birth so that they become effective, nurturing, bonding parents.

It's about time we make the well-being of our young people more important than ideology and politics. As a country, we benefit from investing in their future by investing in teen pregnancy prevention.

Our young people are assets to be cultivated and nurtured; let's begin treating them that way.

The capacity of young people to persevere, even under the most adverse conditions, never ceases to amaze me.

Our youth deserve the opportunity to complete their high school and college education, free of early parenthood. Their future children deserve the opportunity to grow up in financially and emotionally stable homes. Our communities benefit from healthy, productive, well-prepared young people.

Female listeners are leaving traditional talk radio because of the rough-edged, shouting nature of it. Women want more light and less heat.

I knew that I had to write my memoirs.

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

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

People think actresses find public speaking easy, and it's not easy at all; we're used to hiding behind masks.

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

Instead of drifting along like a leaf in a river, understand who you are and how you come across to people and what kind of an impact you have on the people around you and the community around you and the world, so that when you go out, you can feel you have made a positive difference.

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