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Jane Fonda

(1937) Voice Actor United States

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Jane Fonda is a voice actor from the United States, best known for What Can I Do?.

Quick Facts About Jane Fonda

Born: December 21, 1937
Nationality: United States
Profession: Voice Actor
Notable works: What Can I Do?
Spouse: Q193368

About Jane Fonda

She has won two Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, eight Golden Globe Awards and a Primetime Emmy Award, and she has been nominated for a Grammy and two Tony Awards. Her honorary recognitions include the Honorary Palme d’Or in 2007, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2014, the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in 2017, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2021, and the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2025.

Awards & Honors

Academy Award for Best Actress Emmy Award AFI Life Achievement Award BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie Golden Globe Awards Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres

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BBC 100 Women Crystal Award Jane Fonda Humanitarian Award Theatre World Award California Hall of Fame Producers Guild Stanley Kramer Award

Quotes by Jane Fonda · Page 3

Real love and intimacy can be much more possible when you're older.

Intimacy

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I find that arduous physical labor can jump-start my thought process.

Arduous

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We cannot elect men to office who are afraid of premature evacuation.

Evacuation

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My life is a stairway to heaven, not a 'decline into decrepitude.

Decline

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

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I like to think both - it's not either/or. It's and.

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When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed.

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

Loss

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I'm not sure that I would have become a Christian if I had continued to live in Hollywood because the notion wouldn't…

Christian

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Consistency can be a trap, especially if it leads to being consistently wrong rather than to stopping, admitting your mistake, and changing…

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I would have given up acting in a minute. I didn't like how it set me apart from other people.

Acting

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Namby-pamby little routines that don't speed up your heartbeat and make you sweat aren't worth your while.

Exercise

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What we view in the media - and who presents it to us - does so much to determine how we think,…

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You shouldn't give up. For a while, you have to stay close to the wall and be careful who you spend time…

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You must decrease the amount of food you eat and increase the amount of exercise you get. That is all there is…

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He's my favorite ex-husband. We get along great. I love to fish, and he has some beautiful property down there.

Ex husband

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Children born to teens have less supportive and stimulating environments, poorer health, lower cognitive development, and worse educational outcomes. Children of teen…

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“Where identity is not fixed, performance becomes a floating anchor.” And could I perform! Making the unreal seem real, the sad seem…

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My childhood was influenced by the roles my father played in his movies. Whether Abraham Lincoln or Tom Joad in the 'Grapes…

Abraham

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Lee Strasberg told me I had talent. Real talent. It was the first time that anyone, except my father--who had to say…

Acting

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I left acting for 15 years, and I think it's really nice to have another life. I took too much for granted…

Acting

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The skin is our body's envelope, the wrapping that delivers us to the world. If we understand how the skin functions in…

Body

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Get over the feeling that the two words don’t go together - women and power. The fact is, if we don’t put…

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I remember saying goodbye to my father the night he left to join the Navy. He didn't have to. He was older…

Army

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“I needed to pay attention, to be ready to step through and descend into it, whatever it was. It felt archetypal. Something…

Pain

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“Have you noticed how we are presented with the same lessons, over and over and over, before a tipping point is reached?…

Education

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Aging is a staircase - the upward ascension of the human spirit, bringing us into wisdom, wholeness and authenticity. As you may…

Aging

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What I learned is, we have to listen to each other, even when we don't agree, even when we think we hate…

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The harder you work out, the more you should stretch.

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The challenge is not to be perfect…it’s to be whole

Challenge

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I'm now the elder in the position of doling out wisdom and trying to mend fences.

Aging

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Good physical condition is protection. Our strength comes from our body.

Body

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

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I was so devastated by my second divorce that I had a nervous breakdown.

Breakdown

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When I say women are the agents of change, I really should say women and girls.

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I always carry yeast flakes and bran with me when I travel.

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I don't want my wrinkles taken away - I don't want to look like everyone else.

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We're not meant to be perfect. It took me a long time to learn that.

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It is never too late to master your weaknesses.

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The sex is better and I understand life better. I don't want to be young again.

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Jane Fonda by topic

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