Jane Fonda Quotes
When I was at the age when you were supposed to be glamorous if you were a movie star, I wasn't.
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I remember the first time I went to Italy when I was eighteen, I was in Florence and there were all these eighteen, nineteen, twenty-year-olds gliding past on Vespas with crinkly, long, hair, and I thought I was on the set of a movie. I couldn't believe that this was going on and I hadn't known about it before. I was flabbergasted.
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From when I was young, I wanted to be an action hero. I always dreamed about being an action star. So finally, I made it.
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When you're collaborating with somebody, there has to be a spirit of cooperation. There are a lot of times when you just can't persuade someone to write a certain type of song, either musically or lyrically.
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We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century.
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I'm not a movie star like other actors in the way that I need to walk with a bodyguard.
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But generally I am fine with a capital F; probably in extraordinary shape for a man of my age.
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In every movie I do have a dialogue.
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I really loved 'Witches of Eastwick', the movie with Michelle Pfeiffer and Jack Nicholson and Cher.
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I have never planned to have babies by a certain age.
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My mom was always keen I stayed in school and got good grades, and she was always keen for me to do medicine. I used to go to drama classes when I was younger, and she would always take me. But when I got to an age when I decided it was what I wanted to do, when she accepted it, she had actually been the most supportive person ever.
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Age discrimination is illegal. But when compared with discrimination against racial minorities and women, it is a second-class civil rights issue.
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I think I would have been so much in awe of the movie set, the people and what everybody's job was, that I don't know if I would be able to concentrate on the character.
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As a storyteller, when you're writing a movie and when you're directing, you want to keep people entertained. That's the whole point, right? It has to be entertaining.
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One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films.
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My boy cousins used to sit my older brother and me down and take us through a film-studies course. It included 'Tremors', 'The Goonies', and, of course, 'Star Wars'. That was when it began: sitting cross-legged watching as the opening crawl goes up the screen.
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I just never subscribed to the theory that at age 55, you fall off the face of the earth on the Tour. I always felt that was too young of an age for that.
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I did not want to get involved with a rock star. No way. It is not a sane thing to do.
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Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.
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Acting is completely different from the standup world. You have these 12- or 14-hour days, but you have a great time doing it. It's like hanging out with your friends.
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Peace is its own reward.
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For Virgin Galactic's customers, it is transportation to the most amazing experience of their lives. I very much look forward to sending some Scots into space.
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When I was 12, I decided to become a musician. 'Physical Graffiti' was the first album I ever owned.
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My 11-year-old thinks I'm cool because he watches things I've made on YouTube.
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When I was at the age when you were supposed to be glamorous if you were a movie star, I wasn't.
