I never wanted to be an actor. My dad was an actor, and he never brought joy home, so I didn't view it as something that I would want to do. But I got fired as a secretary, and then I started studying, I started doing it just to earn money. And it took me a long time to learn to love it. And what I loved was telling a story. I tried to avoid making plays or films that weren't telling a story that I felt was important. I discovered in the process that it makes you more empathic because you have to enter someone else's reality and learn to see through many other people's eyes.

Jane Fonda

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Stay curious, keep learning and keep growing. And always strive to be more interested than interesting.

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It's never too late - never too late to start over, never too lat... by Jane Fonda

It's never too late - never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.

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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.

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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 know, the entire world operates on a universal law: entropy, the second law of thermodynamics. Entropy means that everything in the world, everything, is in a state of decline and decay, the arch. There's only one exception to this universal law, and that is the human spirit, which can continue to evolve upwards.

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We are not meant to be perfect; we are meant to be whole by Jane Fonda

We are not meant to be perfect; we are meant to be whole

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To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to c... by Jane Fonda

To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.

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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 each other. We have to listen to each others narratives. Not interrupt defensively, or with hostility, but really try to open our hearts and listen with empathy. I learned so much from that meeting. It was a very difficult thing to do and it was one of the best things that I ever did in my life. Look what scares you in the face, and try to understand it. Empathy, I have learned, is revolutionary.

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Look what scares you in the face and try to understand it. Empath... by Jane Fonda

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

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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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I would like to say something, not just to Vietnam veterans in New England, but to men who were in Vietnam, who I hurt, or whose pain I caused to deepen because of the things that I said or did. I was trying to help end the killing and the war, but there were times when I was thoughtless and careless about it and I'm...very sorry that I hurt them. And I want to apologize to them and their families.

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The more you treat yourself positively, the less you'll want or n... by Jane Fonda

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

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Revolution is an act of love; we are the children of revolution, born to be rebels. It runs in our blood.

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Instead of drifting along like a leaf in a river, understand who you are and how you come across to people and what kind of an impact you have on the people around you and the community around you and the world, so that when you go out, you can feel you have made a positive difference.

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The glow and energy of the healthy woman is the ultimate beauty,... by Jane Fonda

The glow and energy of the healthy woman is the ultimate beauty, the only beauty that will last.

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Getting fit is a political act - you are taking charge of your li... by Jane Fonda

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

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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 with and take care of yourself.

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We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.

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I don't know if a country (America) where the people are so ignorant of reality and of history, if you can call that a free world.

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If you allow yourself, you can become stronger in the very places... by Jane Fonda

If you allow yourself, you can become stronger in the very places that you've been broken.

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I finally got it: empower girls and everything changes. by Jane Fonda

I finally got it: empower girls and everything changes.

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