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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.

Jane Fonda

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Jane Fonda
Age: 86
Born: 1937
Born: December 21
Actor
Actress
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Film Actor
Film Producer
Model
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
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New York City
New York
Lady Jayne Seymour Fonda
Hanoi Jane
Jayne Seymour Fonda
Jane Seymour Fonda
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You think you're being broken but you're really being broken open...and that's where the healing happens, in those broken places...if you'll allow it.
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When you're an older woman [in a movie] you tend to be in - how did you put it? You're the brunt of the joke.
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You can do one of two things just shut up, which is something I don't find easy, or learn an awful lot very fast, which is what I tried to do.
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I've been accused of being too flexible, too willing to mold myself to men, and that's something I'm constantly working on.
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When a child enters the world through you, it alters everything on a psychic, psychological and purely practical level.
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We grow up being told, Be a good girl. When you're told to be good, you have to get rid of whatever is bad.
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When you know in your heart why you did something, and you feel and you know that in spite of all the controversy that it was right, doesn't matter.
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So much is made of good, strong roles for women. Actually, it's really interesting playing vul­nerable people as well.
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Refuse to be afraid that we will no longer be considered attractive and acceptable when we are strong.
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My identity depended on men for so long. You can be successful and still have the feeling that if you're not with a man you don't exist.
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Strong to people means real. It means you believe that's a person who exists, as opposed to some two-dimensional depiction of women.
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I'll smoke pot every now and then. I cannot see a movie on pot. The number of movies I've seen thinking, This is probably the best I have ever seen, and then I'll see it again sober and think, What was I thinking?
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You are being used as cannon fodder for U.S. imperialism.
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If our work is stimulating and rewarding, if it pushes us to grow...we become more valuable human beings.
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The most incredible beauty and the most satisfying way of life come from affirming your own uniqueness.
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An exercise outfit helps because it sets this time apart from the rest of your day and makes it matter more.
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It is never too late to master your weaknesses.
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I like to think both - it's not either/or. It's and.
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I hate to create cynicism about politicians. We just need to invade. Regular people need to run for office and keep their balls and ovaries intact.
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People think actresses find public speaking easy, and it's not easy at all we're used to hiding behind masks.
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