Fonda Quotes

We were marching since we were babies and all we did was make Jane Fonda famous.

I've worked with wonderful actors like Marlon Brando and Henry Fonda.

Fonda and Gary Cooper had the best sense of timing of all the actors I knew.

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.

Henry Fonda's son: That's how everybody identified me until Easy Rider came along. Good old Captain America.

Since There are so many questions about what the president was doing over 30 years ago, what is it that he did after his honorable discharge from the National Guard? Did he make speeches alongside Jane Fonda denouncing America's racist war in Vietnam?

You know who helped me a lot? Jane Fonda. She said, Look at how many times I've been up and I've been down. So don't worry about anything.

I've played Henry Fonda's mother so often that, whenever we run into each other, I call him 'son' and he calls me 'Ma', just to save time.

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

Henry Fonda gave me a spanking during a scene in Spencer's Mountain.

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.

Well you're talking about a long career, a lot of movies, a lot of stars. I guess working with Henry Fonda and Katherine Hepburn was a great privilege.

I must have had faith that day. When I went out, I was Henry Fonda again. An unemployed actor but a man.

Henry Fonda one time said that every time he had a job, he thought it was gonna' be the last one. And, if you got any sense, you gotta' think that because, you know when somebody's gonna do a dip, some of 'em go pretty far down.

It was a good experience working with Roger Vadim and Jane Fonda.

My problem was that I was blond. There were no heroes with blond hair. Robert Taylor and Henry Fonda, they all had dark hair. The only one I found was Van Johnson, who wasn't too cool. He was a nice, homely American boy. So I created my own image. It worked.

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.

We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.

Fonda was neither wrong nor unconscionable in what she said and did in North Vietnam.