Peter Fonda Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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. '

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.

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

Civilization has always been a bust.

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!

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.

Every director is so different from every other one.

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

I was famous from birth.

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

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.

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've always internalized things.