Jane Fonda Quotes

I think when you get married, it should be forever. Even though I did get married once and it was annulled. I don't know. For myself, I just want to have kids by the same person and stay with the same person.

I wouldn't want to enter into a relationship in which there was this inhibiting factor that said it can never be forever.

I can't get married. I can't fake sleep for 30 years.

When you're old-fashioned like I am, you know marriage is forever. Those vows are a promise.

Marriage is an institution, and you must be fully committed to it.

I've been married for 22 years. That's the only person I want.

I want to try with someone who loves me enough to try with me. I want to grow old looking at the same face every morning. I want to grow old looking at the same face every night at the dinner table. I want to be one of those old couples you see still holding hands and laughing after fifty years of marriage. That's what I want. I want to be someone's forever.

I only wanted to get married once, so when I felt I was ready to handle it, I looked at my relationships and noticed that boyfriends get tired of girlfriends, and vice versa, but you never get tired of your friends.

I always had boyfriends, but I never imagined a proposal or a wedding. To me, that was like having a ball and chain round your neck.

The problem men seem to have, and women, too, is that they have this very structured idea that we should find a partner and settle down and be, you know, faithful. And yet clearly this is really, really hard for anybody to do!

People get married when they're 18 and spend their whole lives together. I think their greatest fear is that someone will see it as a fling because they were young and it didn't mean anything.

It is really rare to find someone you really, really love and that you want to spend your life with and all that stuff that goes along with being married.

I love being in a relationship, but marriage isn't for me.

If somebody says to me, 'Oh, you're gonna get married and you'll never be attracted to anybody else again,' I'm like, right, sure. It's just not practical to me on an emotional level. Just because I'm married, I'm not dead.

I'm probably not going to get married unless I live with somebody for 10 or 20 years. But these people (Romeo and Juliet) took a chance and they did it. We don't have the balls that Romeo did.

You don't stay married for 33 years and not compromise.

A lot of relationships have ended for me in my 20s, because I knew that eventually those people would wanna settle down and have kids.

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

If I found the right guy, I think I would get married. Maybe. I just feel like it's just a contract. Why sign any more contracts, really?

To be with the same person for the rest of your life just sounds so drab.

Marriages don't last. When I meet a guy, the first question I ask myself is: is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?

My parents have a wonderful marriage, for many years. But I can't commit myself for such a long time.

When I get married it will be for keeps.

I want a permanent relationship, and I might feel inclined to reject anything which of its nature could not be permanent.

I can't imagine life without my wife, but I don't think you should get a prize for staying together a long time.