Henry Fonda
1905-1982|
Biography
Born in Grand Island, Nebraska, USA
Henry Fonda Quotes
“I must have had faith that day. When I went out, I was Henry Fonda again. An unemployed actor but a man.”“I’ve been close to Bette Davis for thirty-eight years - and I have the cigarette burns to prove it.” “Nobody’s gonna come and ask me to take my clothes off. What am I saying? I did, didn’t I? In The Rounders, Went bare-assed. But it was a funny scene.” “You become an actor, maybe, because there are these complexes about you that aren’t average or normal and aren’t the easiest things to live with.” “[On Marlon Brando] I don’t think there’s anybody better when he wants to be good.” “[On acting] Baby it out. That’s an old marble shooter’s expression for approaching your target cautiously instead of trying to take it out with one shot.” “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!” “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.” “[On Peter and Jane] I wish I had their guts.” “I’m an agnostic. Means I don’t know the answers.” “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.” “I don’t know what was in his mind, but I do know Ford was stricken by what he had done, by hitting me.” “It has to do with the fact that Ford, for all his greatness, is an Irish egomaniac, as anyone who knows him will say.” “There’ll never be another John Ford. He had, instinctively, a beautiful eye for the camera. He was so egomaniacal. He would never rehearse, didn’t want to talk about a part. If an actor started to ask a question, he’d either take those pages and tear them out of the script or insult him in an awful way.” “I will not be there and put up with that shit. [Three months later, he won his Oscar]” “I listen to Reagan speak and I want to throw up.” “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.” “Jane for President? Why not? Why not? She’d be good at anything she tried.” “Fifteen out of nearly 80 films isn’t that many. Trouble is I hate horses and I hate riding.” “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.” “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.” “No one could have nicer sisters. No sibling problems there.” |
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The Actor
Henry Fonda has appeared in the following films:The Farmer Takes a Wife (1935) Way Down East (1935) I Dream Too Much (1935) The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936) The Moon’s Our Home (1936) Spendthrift (1936) Wings of the Morning (1937) You Only Live Once (1937) Slim (1937) That Certain Woman (1937) I Met My Love Again (1938) Jezebel (1938) Blockade (1938) Spawn of the North (1938) The Mad Miss Manton (1938) Jesse James (1939) Let Us Live (1939) The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939) Young Mr. Lincoln (1939) Drums Along the Mohawk (1939) The Grapes of Wrath (1940) Lillian Russell (1940) The Return of Frank James (1940) Chad Hanna (1940) The Lady Eve (1941) Wild Geese Calling (1941) You Belong to Me (1941) Rings on Her Fingers (1942) The Male Animal (1942) The Magnificent Dope (1942) Tales of Manhattan (1942) The Big Street (1942) The Battle of Midway (1942) Immortal Sergeant (1943) The Ox-Bow Incident (1943) My Darling Clementine (1946) The Long Night (1947) The Fugitive (1947) Daisy Kenyon (1947) On Our Merry Way (1948) Fort Apache (1948) Jigsaw (1949) Benjy (1951) Mister Roberts (1955) War and Peace (1956) The Wrong Man (1956) 12 Angry Men (1957) The Tin Star (1957) Rangers of Yellowstone (1958) Stage Struck (1958) Warlock (1959) The Man Who Understood Women (1959) San Francisco Fire (1962) Advise and Consent (1962) The Longest Day (1962) How the West Was Won (1962) Spencer’s Mountain (1963) The Best Man (1964) Fail-Safe (1964) Sex and the Single Girl (1964) The Rounders (1965) In Harm’s Way (1965) The Dirty Game (1965) Battle of the Bulge (1965) A Big Hand for the Little Lady (1966) All About People (1967) Welcome to Hard Times (1967) Firecreek (1968) Madigan (1968) Yours, Mine and Ours (1968) The Boston Strangler (1968) C’era una volta il West (1968) Too Late the Hero (1970) The Cheyenne Social Club (1970) There Was a Crooked Man... (1970) Sometimes a Great Notion (1971) Le Serpent (1973) Ash Wednesday (1973) Il Mio nome è Nessuno (1973) Mussolini: Ultimo atto (1974) Midway (1976) Tentacoli (1977) Rollercoaster (1977) The Last of the Cowboys (1977) Il Grande attacco (1978) Fedora (1978) The Swarm (1978) City on Fire (1979) Wanda Nevada (1979) Meteor (1979) On Golden Pond (1981) |
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