Peter Fonda Quotations

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bob Dylan is out of the mentorship of Allen Ginsberg.

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

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

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

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.

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

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!

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

LSD was designed for you to look inside yourself. Quite a liberating experience if you can pull it off.

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.

Her heart was in the right place, but her head wasn't.

I thought LSD was an abused drug in that it was never meant for a person to drop and then go walking down the street.

This is great for me to be able to join my father. I certainly hope my daughter and my son, who is a cameraman, can join me soon.

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.

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!"

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 was famous from birth.

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.

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

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

Civilization has always been a bust.

I've always internalized things

You don't become the character

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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