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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

Jane Seymour Fonda is an American actress and activist. Fonda's work spans several genres and over seven decades of film and television. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards (Oscars), two British Academy Film Awards, eight Golden Globe Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award as well as nominations for a Grammy Award and two Tony Awards. Fonda is also the recipient of various honorary awards including 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.

Biography source: Wikipedia

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 9

You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.

Acting

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We all, in fact, carry so many people inside us; the only difference is that actors get paid for it, and we…

Actors

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I was in my mid-40s. I was a bulimic, and I realized if I continue with this addiction of mine, I will…

Able

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Ted needs someone to be there 100% of the time. He thinks that's love. It's not love - it's babysitting.

Babysitting

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I thought I had learned how to have an intimate relationship. And I thought I'd learned how to be happy. Everybody has…

Challenges

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Emotionality is really easy for me. My father always said that Fondas can cry at a good steak.

Cry

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I lived in France during the '60s. I was there from the early '60s until 1970, so my view of the '60s…

America

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My position on the POW issue has been widely misquoted and taken out of context. What I originally said and have continued…

Has beens

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Getting fit is a political act - you are taking charge of your life.

Fit

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I always tried, in the books I wrote, to make it clear: Thin is not the goal. But I was thin. So…

Book

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Pay more attention to losing inches than losing pounds.

Attention

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Christianity or any religion doesn't necessarily have to be about a church. You carry your God inside you... But when you're famous…

Christian

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You're more powerful when talking from your soul.

Powerful

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I know how gratifying it is not only to work in film but to be acknowledged by peers; producing '9 to 5'…

Cinema

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The '60s may be idealized in the movie from a cultural point of view, but the decade was all about discord and…

About

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There are no shortcuts and no sweatless quickies.

Inspirational

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When women have reclaimed their voices and men reclaimed their hearts, we won't be invading countries, we won't be feeling that we…

Country

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I think that, like most of us, I was born with an innate goodness. And I believe that God has seen that…

Believe

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I never wanted to be an actor. My dad was an actor, and he never brought joy home, so I didn't view…

Actors

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I'd like to think that I have integrity.

Integrity

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Seek women mentors. If you're a businesswoman, look at the TEDx conferences. There's a lot of businesswomen that speak on there. I…

Conferences

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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…

Amount

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I am blessed beyond reason with women friends.

Am

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Good enough is good enough. We're not supposed to be perfect. We're supposed to be complete.

Enough

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The vulnerability of opening your heart fully and deeply to another is terrifying, but at a point in my 50s, I realized…

Heart

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