Top 32 Quotes About Henry Fonda
#1. Well you're talking about a long career, a lot of movies, a lot of stars. I guess working with Henry Fonda and Katherine Hepburn was a great privilege.
Mark Rydell
#2. Being born with a sickly resemblance to Henry Fonda was the first of a long series of practical jokes of which destiny was to make Major Major the unhappy victim throughout his joyless life. Being born Major Major Major was the second
Joseph Heller
#3. Getting out from under the shadow of Henry Fonda was difficult.
Peter Fonda
#4. Henry Fonda gave me a spanking during a scene in Spencer's Mountain.
Maureen O'Hara
#6. I must have had faith that day. When I went out, I was Henry Fonda again. An unemployed actor but a man.
Henry Fonda
#7. The buried code of many American films has become: If I kill you, I have won and you have lost. The instinctive ethical code of traditional Hollywood, the code by which characters like James Stewart, John Wayne and Henry Fonda lived, has been lost.
Roger Ebert
#8. 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.
Peter Fonda
#9. 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.
Peter Fonda
#10. I always hated when the studios just kind of said that anybody can act. You look at people like Spencer Tracy, Henry Fonda - and I'm just talking about the male actors - there aren't a lot who can act. It's a very special talent, and I wish it were recognized as a very special talent.
Bob Newhart
#11. Looking is an important part of Stanwyck's acting: many performers have beautiful eyes (for example, Henry Fonda), or use their eyes expressively (most remarkably, perhaps, Bette Davis), but few use them so attentively to observe and survey others and the world [as Stanwyck].
Andrew Klevan
#12. My problem was that I was blond. There were no heroes with blond hair. Robert Taylor and Henry Fonda, they all had dark hair. The only one I found was Van Johnson, who wasn't too cool. He was a nice, homely American boy. So I created my own image. It worked.
Michael Caine
#13. Clarence Darrow was a unique and courageous man. Several of my favourite actors have played Darrow ... Henry Fonda, Orson Welles and Spencer Tracy.
Kevin Spacey
#14. If Gary Cooper and Henry Fonda had a baby, it would be Matthew Modine.
Stanley Kubrick
#15. Henry Fonda one time said that every time he had a job, he thought it was gonna' be the last one. And, if you got any sense, you gotta' think that because, you know when somebody's gonna do a dip, some of 'em go pretty far down.
Barry Corbin
#16. Henry Fonda's son: That's how everybody identified me until Easy Rider came along. Good old Captain America.
Peter Fonda
#17. I've worked with wonderful actors like Marlon Brando and Henry Fonda.
Eli Wallach
#18. 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.
Peter Fonda
#19. I'm not like Henry Fonda. He lives to act. I've just had a dedication to do the best I could. When I don't have challenges, the days get long. But I do enjoy being on stage. If I do good work, I get a kick out of that.
Don Ameche
#20. Being Henry Fonda's daughter got me started. But it didn't keep me working.
Jane Fonda
#21. It has to do with the fact that Ford, for all his greatness, is an Irish egomaniac, as anyone who knows him will say.
Henry Fonda
#22. I don't know what was in his mind, but I do know Ford was stricken by what he had done, by hitting me.
Henry Fonda
#23. No one could have nicer sisters. No sibling problems there.
Henry Fonda
#24. I always seemed to disappoint them. They expected me to be different than Henry or exactly like Henry. I was neither.
Peter Fonda
#25. Ford didn't know what to do with Mister Roberts that wasn't repeating what was successful in New York. He was trying to do things to the play that would be his in the film.
Henry Fonda
#26. I'd just as soon not get into a discussion about Jane and her politics. I'd just as soon stick to what we're here for, the picture.
Henry Fonda
#27. We don't have to relive the sad and bad memories of Christmas Past. We can create new Christmas memories in the present for the future.
Tom North
#28. I've been close to Bette Davis for thirty-eight years - and I have the cigarette burns to prove it.
Henry Fonda
#29. My whole damn family was nice. I don't think I've imagined it. It's true. Maybe it has to do with being brought up as Christian Scientists. Half of my relatives were Readers or Practitioners in the church.
Henry Fonda
#30. My thinking was scrambled when Sullivan and I separated. Something happened to me that had never happend before. I couldn't cope. It was heartbreak time. I thought it was the end of the world.
Henry Fonda
#31. For me, college wasn't a breeze. I had 8 o'clock classes, I worked from 3 to 11 at the Settlement House. On weekends, if Northwestern Bell needed me, I'd troubleshoot for them, and I had a steady girl. God!
Henry Fonda
#32. I found myself facing a Christian Science Reading Room. My God! It had been eight years. There had never been any renunciation of religion on my part, but like so many people, it was a gradual fading away.
Henry Fonda
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