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I Never Wanted To Be An Actor. My Dad Was An Actor, And He Never Brought Joy Home, So I Didn't View It As Something That I Would Want To Do. But I Got Fired As A Secretary, And Then I Started Studying, I Started Doing It Just To Earn Money. And It Took Me A Long Time To Learn To Love It. And What I Loved Was Telling A Story. I Tried To Avoid Making Plays Or Films That Weren't Telling A Story That I Felt Was Important. I Discovered In The Process That It Makes You More Empathic Because You Have To Enter Someone Else's Reality And Learn To See Through Many Other People's Eyes.

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I Never Wanted To

Jane Fonda

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I Never Wanted To Be An Actor. My Dad Was An Actor, And He Never Brought Joy Home, So I Didn't View It As Something That I Would Want To Do. But I Got Fired As A Secretary, And Then I Started Studying, I Started Doing It Just To Earn Money. And It Took Me A Long Time To Learn To Love It. And What I Loved Was Telling A Story. I Tried To Avoid Making Plays Or Films That Weren't Telling A Story That I Felt Was Important. I Discovered In The Process That It Makes You More Empathic Because You Have To Enter Someone Else's Reality And Learn To See Through Many Other People's Eyes.

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Think Of Anger As A Muscle. The Way You Express Anger Isn't The Way That I Do, Or You. If You Have A Good Director, You Will Find That He's Getting You To Use An Entirely Different Muscle That You Never Even Knew You Had - It's Real Hard And Sore, Then After A While It Becomes Normal. And You Discover All These New Muscles When You Enter A New Character - That's What A Director Does For You.

Feminism Is About Ultimate, Limitless Reality.

I Always Carry Yeast Flakes And Bran With Me When I Travel.

In Spite Of The Incident, My Experience In Kansas City Was Wonderful And I Thank All The Warm And Supportive People, Including So Many Veterans, Who Came To Welcome Me Last Night.

I Thought I Had Learned How To Have An Intimate Relationship. And I Thought I'd Learned How To Be Happy. Everybody Has Issues. For Me, The Challenge Is Intimacy, But I Really Didn't Start To Get That Until I Turned 60.

Female Listeners Are Leaving Traditional Talk Radio Because Of The Rough-edged, Shouting Nature Of It.

Whatever Kind Of Workout You Settle On, It Should Include The Big Three Of Exercise For Health And Fitness-aerobics, Resistance Exercises, And Stretching.

Parents Are Supposed To Give The Child Back To Herself With Love. If They've Got Duct Tape Over Their Eyes Because Of Narcissism, It Doesn't Happen.

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