#ninetiesbitch

“I was always in love with Robert Redford. I made three films with him and nothing happened because I was married and he was married.”

But things are easier between us now. Perhaps it’s my age. Being here with just her and her family, I am able to see her as a grown woman, not as a child; not even as a child of mine. Just a woman in her own right. It’s easier.” - Jane Fonda, about her daughter Vanessa

Lynn Whitfield as Pauletta Jones in Nappily Ever After (2018)

“For his own reasons, Ted moves laterally through life, very fast, across his millions of acres. I wanted to go vertical. I knew if I stayed with him, I'd be safe, I wouldn't need to work, and it would be interesting. But I would never be a whole person, and I wanted to be a whole person.” - Jane Fonda

However, there were times when I ran into trouble because of my father; like, there was a scene where we were having an intense, angry exchange about parcheesi and beating people, and they shot my close-up first and there was so much light in my eyes that I couldn’t see his eyes, and so I had the cameraman put some light on his face so that I could see him. When the camera turned around and it was now on him, before we shot, I said, ‘Is it okay, dad? Can you see my eyes?’ He said, ‘I don’t need to see your eyes. I’m not that kind of actor.’ and the way actors are, half of me was demolished. I just felt so hurt and awful. The other half of me was saying, ‘Yes! This is so great, this is just like the character.’ But the bad part took over and, at the end of the day when everybody was leaving, I was just immobile on the couch, I was so wiped. Suddenly, Katharine came up and just put her arms around me; nobody knew it but she just did. She said, ‘He doesn’t even know that he hurt you. You don’t take it personally. Spencer used to do that all the time to me. He’d say, I don’t need you to be here for the love scene. Go. I’m not that kind of actor. They don’t know that they’ve hurt you.’ and it meant the world to me. That kind of thing, she would do.” - Jane Fonda

I knew Michael as well as one could know him during the time before he did 'The Wiz' and up through 'Thriller'. I couldn't pretend to understand him, but I remember one day, he was visiting me at my ranch north of Santa Barbara. It was the first time he had been in that region but he must have liked it because later he bought his ranch in that same area. As we walked around the ranch, which was perched right at the edge of the mountain overlooking Goleta, I pointed to a spot where I told him I wanted to be buried. Michael had a meltdown right then and there. He shrieked and bent over and said "No, no, no!" "What's the matter?" I asked. "Don't ever talk about your dying," he answered. "Don't ever think about it." - Jane Fonda