Top 11 Quotes & Sayings by Henry Fonda

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actor Henry Fonda.

Last updated on November 8, 2024.

Henry Jaynes Fonda was an American film and stage actor who had a career that spanned five decades on Broadway and in Hollywood. Fonda cultivated an everyman screen image in several films considered to be classics.

American - Actor | May 16, 1905 - August 12, 1982

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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

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

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.

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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

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.

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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

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.

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I've been close to Bette Davis for thirty-eight years - and I have the cigarette burns to prove it.

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I must have had faith that day. When I went out, I was Henry Fonda again. An unemployed actor but a man.

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No one could have nicer sisters. No sibling problems there.

Henry Fonda

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