Jane Fonda Quotes

The most important thing to do as you age is to stay physically active. Lots of people just throw in the towel if they can't do what they used to do, and that's terrible.

People think I'm talking like I'm in perfect health, but I have all the infirmities for my age. I have arthritis and all those things. But if you keep moving, that won't bother you.

I realized just how much exercise and eating right make a difference in how you feel now and when you get older.

Because I take care of my body, it doesn't look like the body of a woman of my years.

If I want to run around a field when I'm 70, I would like to have that option.

You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.

I am lucky, I don't have aches and pains. I do Pilates regularly, which is a series of stretching exercises, and I recommend it to anyone of my age because the temptation is not to exercise when you get older. Well, you should.

You can exercise right through to your 60s, 70s, 80s and even 90s.

I'm a big believer that as you age, you need to stretch more.

You don't stop running because you get old, you get old because you stop running.

Once you are over 30, 35 years old, I think everyone should get down to the gym and start moving again.

In my seventies, I exercised to stay ambulatory. In my eighties, I exercise to avoid assisted living.

We all know now that people can look good for their age. It isn't so extraordinary, I don't know why people go on about it so much.

I have never felt more confident in myself, more clear on who I am as a woman. But I am constantly thinking about my own health and making sure that I'm eating right and getting exercise and watching the aches and pains. I want to be this really fly 80-90-year old.

What man in his 40s would not like to look in the mirror and find Nolan Ryan?

I try to stay in shape, I work out in the gym, take my vitamins every day, and I guess maybe I have some good genes, but lately I've been feeling it. You know, after all these years it does catch up with you. But just for now.

You don't need to go to the gym; all you need is a pair of shoes.

I actually feel, in a lot of ways, that I'm in better shape than I was when I was 30.

At 62 you want to keep moving; that's important.

People say, 'You look to be in great shape for your age,' and I guess I am.

Aging gracefully is one thing, but trying to slow it down is another.

I think it's important to stretch as you get older, but I try to do basically all the things I did when I played, except I can't do them as well and as much.

I have good genes, and I also do lots of exercises.

We can't avoid age. However, we can avoid some aging. Continue to do things. Be active. Life is fantastic in the way it adjusts to demands; if you use your muscles and mind, they stay there much longer.

Somehow I have managed to delay looking old. In reality I have good genes.