A Quote by Stanley Kubrick

If Gary Cooper and Henry Fonda had a baby, it would be Matthew Modine. — © Stanley Kubrick
If Gary Cooper and Henry Fonda had a baby, it would be Matthew Modine.
Fonda and Gary Cooper had the best sense of timing of all the actors I knew.
I saw Tom Cruise at every audition I went up for, and he was a friendly go-getter back then. You gotta remember, in New York I would go up for something, I would sit, and in the room would be Matthew Modine, Matthew Broderick, Andrew McCarthy, Tom Cruise, and Kevin Bacon.
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.
When I was younger I looked a bit like Matthew Modine out of 'Birdy'.
It comes as a great shock…to discover that the flag to which you have pledged allegiance…has not pledged allegiance to you. It comes as a great shock to see Gary Cooper killing off the Indians, and although you are rooting for Gary Cooper, that the Indians are you.
Anyone who would let Gary Cooper and the entire cast go charging on horseback without first finding out what kind of footing the horses had is nuts and cannot possibly direct a motion picture.
I must have had faith that day. When I went out, I was Henry Fonda again. An unemployed actor but a man.
Getting out from under the shadow of Henry Fonda was difficult.
I think they are grooming me as another Gary Cooper.
Bogart was like Henry Fonda - proud and happy to be an actor.
Once Henry had heard a crying noise at sea, and had seen a mermaid floating on the ocean's surface. The mermaid had been injured by a shark. Henry had pulled the mermaid out of the water with a rope, and she had died in his arms..."what language did the mermaid speak?" Alma wanted to know, imagining that it like almost have to be Greek. "English!" Henry said. "By God, plum, why would I rescue a deuced foreign mermaid?
I remember being mesmerized by 'Love in the Afternoon,' with Gary Cooper.
I didn't know what to expect from a famous movie star; maybe that he'd be sort of stuck-up, you know. But not Gary Cooper. He horsed around so much... that I had a hard time painting him.
Henry Fonda gave me a spanking during a scene in Spencer's Mountain.
I've worked with wonderful actors like Marlon Brando and Henry Fonda.
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.
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