Jane Fonda Quotes

Men are allowed to get older and women are not.

Most women are not as young as they are painted.

I mention my age because I find people in this country - women, not men, of course - women are so troubled by their age. There's a culture of youth, and it's a phony culture.

I know plenty of actresses in their early thirties who look amazing, although there's that old saying: 'Ladies get older, men get more distinguished.'

A political woman loses her beauty within a year.

It often means that a woman is hired because she is pretty, regardless of her qualifications; that a woman's job security is eternally dependent on how well she pleases her boss, and he often thinks sexual companionship is part of the job description; and that women are fired because they have aged or they are too independent or they say 'no' to sexual byplay

There's still this idea that women are over by the time they are 40, so that they can't play the love interest opposite a 50-year-old man. George Clooney is 52, but he's always on the arm of a thirt-something actress. He gets Vera Farmiga. You don't get a 50-year-old woman on the arm of a 30-year-old guy.

Our public culture is one in which only the young and the beautiful will succeed. If you're forty, you're finished.

Women are not forgiven for aging. Robert Redford's lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles.

A woman my age is not supposed to be attractive or sexually appealing. I just get kinda tired of that.

People get devalued in Hollywood when they age, despite all their efforts to stay relevant and beautiful and young. They can't get jobs anymore.

Women are usually only interesting to studio executives when they are fecund, between the ages of 15 and 30. I decided to get through the really tough patch, around 50, by just cutting my price and playing ten years older. I didn't want to have to wait until I was an old lady to play one.

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

It's every woman's tragedy, that, after a certain age, she looks like a female impersonator. Mind you, we've known some lovely female impersonators, in our time.

I'm going to be 58, and I'm a woman. In this business, that seems to be a bigger crime than being mentally ill.

It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control.

Old women should not seek to be perfumed.

Ageism works in both directions. As a teenager in the public eye, people would talk condescendingly to me. When you get older there's this feeling that you have to start carving up your face and body. Right now I'm in the middle ground - I think women in their thirties are taken seriously.

Sex and older women used to be considered an oxymoron, rarely mentioned in the same breath.

I feel like women are asked their age more than men.

Women become invisible as they age; men become impotent.

What's worse in Hollywood, being handicapped or being a woman over 50?

You get the older version of women that you've played before.

Women over 30 are usually somebody's mother in a 'Porky's' movie, being silly and being ridiculed. There's just not a whole lot for them to do. It's just coffee-pouring on a bigger scale.

There is this thing in America where actresses reach 40 and go mad. The film industry wants all these young people.