Jane Fonda Trying Quotations

Mostly actors are progressive because we are accustomed to all the nuances of human life, whereas dictators just try to flatten it all out. So we usually try to stand up to dictators like, well, we won't mention names.

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

In my marriages, I'd lost parts of who I was because I was trying to mold myself into what I thought a man wanted me to be.

In this age of remote-controlled pushbutton war, we must all try very, very hard to remain human beings.

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.

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

Look what scares you in the face and try to understand it. Empathy is revolutionary.

We don't need to be perfect. We're not supposed to be perfect; we're supposed to be complete. And you can't be complete if you're trying to be perfect.

I have people in my life who will say, 'Honey, you're trying too hard.' I like being saucy, but I'm 73 and a half. I'm still trying to find my way between matronly and coltishness.

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