Peter Fonda Quotes

Every director is so different from every other one.

It’s wonderful to me that bees have this simple, age-old thing going on.

I wasn’t really aware that my father was working for quite a while. I thought it was my mother who had all the money!

Henry Fonda’s son: That’s how everybody identified me until Easy Rider came along. Good old Captain America.

My abilities grow with each job, whether it’s writing or directing. When I stop learing, I’ll stop working.

People ask me from time to time what it was like growing up with Henry Fonda as my father. I say, Ever see Fort Apache? He was like Colonel Thursday.

I’ve always internalized things.

It took us a long time to find out that we had been lied to by our parents’ generation. The moralities that were followed during our parents’ generation were basically arbitrary. This caused a rift between the two generations, which was brought on by the beatniks.

Remember, Alan Greenspan was a member of Ayn Rand’s collective. To understand this is to understand why we are doomed with the Federal Reserve.

You don’t become the character.

I know I’m responsible for not having got the kind of roles that I’d have liked to. ‘

I don’t trust anybody who didn’t inhale.

The word courage – God, I love that word. Words are so important to me.

Brando’s a family friend. His mother gave my father a shot to be in a play at the Omaha Community Playhouse. That was the first production he was in.

I knew Henry Fonda was my father, but I didn’t know who I was. They all thought of me as Henry Fonda’s son. Unfortunately for them, they never got to know me.

I want to die in the saddle. I love writing, producing, acting, directing.

I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality.

I always seemed to disappoint them. They expected me to be different than Henry or exactly like Henry. I was neither.

Getting out from under the shadow of Henry Fonda was difficult.