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Facts about Peter Fonda

Occup.Actor
FromUSA
BornFebruary 23, 1940
Age85 years

Summary

Peter Fonda is a famous Actor from USA, he is 85 years old and still alive, born February 23, 1940.

Zodiac:
He is born under the zodiac pisces, who is known for Fluctuation, Depth, Imagination, Reactive, Indecisive. Our collection contains 29 quotes who is written / told by Peter.

Related authors: Jack Nicholson (Actor), Dennis Hopper (Actor), Henry Fonda (Actor)

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29 Famous quotes by Peter Fonda

"I've always internalized things"
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"Bob Dylan is out of the mentorship of Allen Ginsberg"
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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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"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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"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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"I truly miss the genius of the music of John Lennon, as I'm sure everybody does"
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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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"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 was famous from birth"
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"I want to die in the saddle. I love writing, producing, acting, directing"
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"Getting out from under the shadow of Henry Fonda was difficult"
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"It's wonderful to me that bees have this simple, age-old thing going on"
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"I was named Beekeeper of the Year by the Florida State Beekeeping Association"
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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 don't trust anybody who didn't inhale"
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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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"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 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 have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality"
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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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"Every director is so different from every other one"
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"The word courage - God, I love that word. Words are so important to me"
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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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"You don't become the character"
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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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"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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"I want to be on set and die hearing those words: Where's Peter?"
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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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"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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