Peter Fonda - biography

Biography

Peter Fonda is best-known for the following films:

Peter Fonda Quotes

“You don’t become the character.”

“I was famous from birth.”

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

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

“I met this chick in New York and she saw a strung-out paranoid Pisces. And she said: ‘Here, smoke a little of this instead.’ And I did. And I got ripped. And I stopped wearing a gun. And I stopped drinking. And I got less and less violent.”

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

“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 don’t think Europeans make better films. They can’t even keep their johns clean.”

“I am my own hero.”

“Bob Dylan is out of the mentorship of Allen Ginsberg.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Every director is so different from every other one.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“I’ve always internalized things.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

Filmography

The Actor