A biography for Peter Fondahasn’t been written yet.
“I know I'm responsible for not having got the kind of roles that I'd have liked to. '”
“Getting out from under the shadow of Henry Fonda was difficult.”
“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.”
“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 wasn't really aware that my father was working for quite a while. I thought it was my mother who had all the money!”
“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.”
“I truly miss the genius of the music of John Lennon, as I'm sure everybody does.”
“I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality.”
“I love to direct my daughter, and act with her, and we both want to work with Jane again.”
“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 want to be on set and die hearing those words: Where's Peter?”
“The word courage - God, I love that word. Words are so important to me.”
“I was named Beekeeper of the Year by the Florida State Beekeeping Association.”
“It's wonderful to me that bees have this simple, age-old thing going on.”
“Every director is so different from every other one.”
“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've always internalized things.”
“When Jane and I spoke out, people thought, What ungrateful children those two kids are to be that nasty about their father.”
“Henry Fonda's son: That's how everybody identified me until Easy Rider came along. Good old Captain America.”
“You don't become the character.”