Peter Fonda quotes His role in 'Easy Rider' (1969) Born: 02/23/1940 Country: usa

• After we finished his scene, Dad wrote me a letter saying that in his 41 years of making motion pictures, he had never seen a crew so devoted to their director, nor a director so devoted to his crew. (Peter Fonda) [letter/motion/director/director]
• All the technical advances have made it interesting for that inexplicable thing called acting, and it's allowing directors to go out and do their thing. (Peter Fonda) [thing/thing]
• Bob Dylan is out of the mentorship of Allen Ginsberg. (Peter Fonda)
• Brando, any of those are like a backbone on which you can build a skeleton and put flesh and blood in. (Peter Fonda) [blood]
• 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. (Peter Fonda) [family/mother]
• Every director is so different from every other one. (Peter Fonda) [director]
• Everyone always has a different perception of you. (Peter Fonda) [perception]
• Getting out from under the shadow of Henry Fonda was difficult. (Peter Fonda) [shadow]
• He was an extraordinary actor. The neat part was acting with him. He said, I don't know why you give yourself that kind of trouble, son. But for me, there was no trouble. (Peter Fonda) [give]
• He wrote, You are a very good director, son, and I love you very much. Your dad. He had never used those words with me before. I passed that letter around the company. For without the company, the letter would never have been written. (Peter Fonda) [director/love/words/letter]
• He'd gone back into the hospital and I knew this really was it. I thought, Here comes the test. Can we look each other in the eyes? He grabbed me by the shoulders. He said, I love you very much, Son. (Peter Fonda) [look/love]
• Henry Fonda's son: That's how everybody identified me until Easy Rider came along. Good old Captain America. (Peter Fonda) [captain/america]
• Her heart was in the right place, but her head wasn't. (Peter Fonda) [right]
• How could I find out who he was if I was trying to be his son and had no idea who I was myself? (Peter Fonda) [find]
• I always seemed to disappoint them. They expected me to be different than Henry or exactly like Henry. I was neither. (Peter Fonda)
• I always want to be doing this. (Peter Fonda)
• I can be an 80-year-old man and still acting, riding around on a motorcycle, naked. (Peter Fonda)
• I could see the concern on Jane's face and how she didn't want to tell me that she didn't think it was a very good movie. (Peter Fonda) [face/think/movie]
• I don't trust anybody who didn't inhale. (Peter Fonda) [trust]
• I got to play a character that required me to throw everything heavy away. No one thought I could handle this kind of character or do multidimensional stuff. (Peter Fonda) [character/heavy/character]
• I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality. (Peter Fonda) [society/business/]
• I just want to continue finding actors' directors. (Peter Fonda)
• 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. (Peter Fonda)
• I knew, in 1965, that I was on the wrong road for the kind of person I was. I had to change things. (Peter Fonda) [change]
• I know I'm responsible for not having got the kind of roles that I'd have liked to. ' (Peter Fonda)
• I know what it's like to be a young actor. (Peter Fonda)
• I like working with myself. I have the knack for it. (Peter Fonda)
• I love to direct my daughter, and act with her, and we both want to work with Jane again. (Peter Fonda) [love]
• I often wondered why I didn't get a chance to read for certain parts, but then I was pretty much a rebellious character in Hollywood once I figured out people were only interested in deals. (Peter Fonda) [chance/character/people]
• I pretty well knew Dad was dying early on, and decided that I was not going to let him out of here without closing. (Peter Fonda)
• I realized, if you have to carry a card, you're not an independent. (Peter Fonda)

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