Peter Fonda Quotes

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

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#2. You don't become the character.

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

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#4. Lennon was not very fond of me. Lennon didn't like to be around somebody else who was likely to be the center of attention and didn't like being on deck with somebody who was intellectually as hot as he was.

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#5. 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.

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

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

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

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#9. I dig my father. I wish he could open his eyes and dig me.

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#10. 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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#11. Civilization has always been a bust.

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

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#13. Regular chiropractic adjustments go hand in hand with good health.

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#14. My actual intake of different substances was far below what people thought it was, no matter how weird or outrageous they think I am.

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#15. My sons named her Bridget because that way they always had their sister, Bridget, with them. People thought we were nuts because on the phone they'd hear us say, "Bridget, sit!"

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#16. Peter Fonda is the reason I became a motorcyclist. I saw Easy Rider and I bought a motorcycle the next day, and I rode it all the way from LA to San Francisco.

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#17. I've been doing the Fonda workout: the Peter Fonda workout. That's where I wake up, take a hit of acid, smoke a joint, and go to my sister's house and ask her for money.

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

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#19. When Jane and I spoke out, people thought, What ungrateful children those two kids are to be that nasty about their father.

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#20. 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.

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

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#22. Every director is so different from every other one.

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#23. 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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#24. I was famous from birth.

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#25. 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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#26. 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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#27. 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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#28. I was named Beekeeper of the Year by the Florida State Beekeeping Association.

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#29. The word courage - God, I love that word. Words are so important to me.

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

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#31. Bob Dylan is out of the mentorship of Allen Ginsberg.

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

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

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#34. I've always internalized things.

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#35. Muslims want the whole world to be Muslim. Christians want the whole world to be Christian. Catholics, Protestants, Mormons. They're all the same. Far out, right? Everyone wants the world to be like them.

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#36. 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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