Top 43 Quotes & Sayings by Peter Fonda

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Last updated on April 14, 2025.

Peter Henry Fonda was an American actor. He was the son of Henry Fonda, younger brother of Jane Fonda, and father of Bridget Fonda. He was a part of the counterculture of the 1960s. Fonda was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Easy Rider (1969), and the Academy Award for Best Actor for Ulee's Gold (1997). For the latter, he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama. Fonda also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film for The Passion of Ayn Rand (1999).

American - Actor | February 23, 1940 - August 16, 2019

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

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

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

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You don't become the character.

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Bob Dylan is out of the mentorship of Allen Ginsberg.

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I was famous from birth.

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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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I've always internalized things.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Every director is so different from every other one.

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

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

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

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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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I've always internalized things

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Civilization has always been a bust.

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

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

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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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You don't become the character

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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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We wanna be free! We wanna be free to do what we wanna do. We wanna be free to ride. We wanna be free to ride our machines without being hassled by The Man! ... And we wanna get loaded. And we wanna have a good time. And that's what we are gonna do. We are gonna have a good time... We are gonna have a party.

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