Quote by Jane Fonda
My childhood was influenced by the roles my father played in his m

My childhood was influenced by the roles my father played in his movies. Whether Abraham Lincoln or Tom Joad in the Grapes of Wrath, his characters communicated certain values which I try to carry with me to this day. – Jane Fonda

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If adolescent pregnancy prevention is to become a priority, then our strategy, as advocates, must contain two key elements: civic engagement and education. – Jane Fonda

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I remember saying goodbye to my father the night he left to join the Navy. He didnt have to. He was older than other servicemen and had a family to support but he wanted to be a part of the fight against fascism, not just make movies about it. I admired this about him. – Jane Fonda

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I hadnt made a big-budget film, and in Hollywood theres a sort of man and boys situation. Youre a man, you make $80 million movies! As if its harder to make an $80 million movie. Well, I guess businesswise it is because you have more executives to argue with. – Gus Van Sant

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By the way, movies are like sporting events in that youre as good as the movie youre in. You can sit in a room for 20 years and go do a movie and you can just kill in it and you move to the head of the line again. By the same token, you can do five movies a year and if theyre dreck, its nothing. – Albert Brooks

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I didnt know this about myself, but when Pirates of the Caribbean came out I realised that I didnt enjoy a huge amount of recognition. I didnt react to it well, but I think life is about finding out who you are and what you like. So I started doing independent movies and art-house films instead. – Keira Knightley

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Im fed up with the idiots… the ever-widening gap between people who know how to make movies and the people who green-light the movies. – Sean Connery

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movies

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