Peter Fonda Quotes

Bob Dylan is out of the mentorship of Allen Ginsberg.

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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.

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Every director is so different from every other one.

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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I love to direct my daughter, and act with her, and we both want to work with Jane again.

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I truly miss the genius of the music of John Lennon, as I'm sure everybody does.

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I want to be on set and die hearing those words: Where's Peter?

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

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I was famous from birth.

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I was named Beekeeper of the Year by the Florida State Beekeeping Association.

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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!

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I've always internalized things.

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If I have enough ego to say I'm a writer, a director, a producer, and an actor, I should have the energy and the knowledge to write a scene for this great actor named Henry Fonda and direct him in it and have it work.

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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.

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