American Quotes

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've always internalized things.

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!

I was famous from birth.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Bob Dylan is out of the mentorship of Allen Ginsberg.

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

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

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

Every director is so different from every other one.

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

I find that arduous physical labor can jump-start my thought process.

I feel like when I was an adolescent, and felt so unworthy of love and so empty, I moved outside of myself.

I feel like my honesty gives people the freedom to talk about things they wouldn't otherwise.

I don't think there's anything more important than making peace before it's too late. And it almost always falls to the child to try to move toward the parent.

I always had a penchant for falling in love. Every time I found myself without a mate, I fell into a state of low-sizzling panic.

Emotionality is really easy for me. My father always said that Fondas can cry at a good steak.

Children born to teens have less supportive and stimulating environments, poorer health, lower cognitive development, and worse educational outcomes. Children of teen mothers are at increased risk of being in foster care and becoming teen parents themselves, thereby repeating the cycle.

All my life I had believed that unless I was perfect I would not be loved.

A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring.

When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed.