Jane Fonda Quotes

At school I pretended I had a normal life, but I felt lonely all the time and different from everyone else. I never felt like I fit in, and I wasn't allowed to participate in after-school activities, go to sports events or parties or date boys. Many times I had to make up stories about why I couldn't do anything with my classmates.

I've had some ambivalent feelings about being an actor. I don't know that I've ever been totally and completely comfortable with it.

I was almost tragically shy, like, clinically. I should've been admitted somewhere. I think my parents knew, but maybe they didn't think much about it. It's hard walking the Earth shy. You miss out on a lot.

As an actor, you always think your last job is your last job, and you're always doubting yourself and worried that people will see you're a fraud.

But I'm guessing every actor is insecure.

Sometimes I've been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.

At 6 years old I knew there was no place for me.

I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends' lives.

Actors are such an insecure breed.

I didn't really like the aloneness of doing stand-up.

I never got picked on, but I never had a lot of friends. When I talked to my parents about it, they said, 'They're just jealous because you're beautiful and talented.' It was probably one of the worst things they could have told me, because I became self-conscious.

Actors know what actors are insecure about - and they're all insecure.

All actors are incredibly insecure.

Being an actor can be a lonely life.

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

Let's just say I like acting, but not necessarily all the stuff that comes with it.

I was a very repressed young person. I wasn't good at school. I didn't fit in.

Why would anyone be an actor if he or she weren't insecure? That's why anybody pursues this kind of work.

I was always the shy one around, I wouldn't sing even in family gatherings.

I never had had a large group of friends, so I often felt a little out of place and like I was in a different mindset from everyone else around me because I was so focused on my acting career.

My shyness probably defined the first 30 years of my life, really. It's a crippling thing. It can be very lonely knowing that you've got things to say, but you daren't say them.

As an actor, you always feel like you're not going to work again. You're always unsure about how things are going to work out, and you start thinking you're going to just fade off into the distance.

I lived in buses. I didn't really have anything else. I didn't feel like a female, and I ended up really kind of isolated. Everybody thinks you're so happy and so wealthy and such a big star, but you're really kind of lonely and don't know how to stop it.

I'm not Beyonce or Trey Songz or anything, so every now and again, I feel a little like, 'Are they listening to me, or am I just sounding crazy singing to myself?' I feel like that sometimes.

Fame made me insecure and insular. I wanted to run away from being me.