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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Related Henry Fonda's son: That's how everybody identified me until Easy Rider came along. Good old ... PETER FONDA Henry Fonda gave me a spanking during a scene in Spencer's Mountain. MAUREEN O'HARA Henry Fonda gave me a spanking during a scene in Spencer's Mountain. MAUREEN O'HARA People ask me from time to time what it was like growing up with Henry Fonda as my father. I say, Ev... PETER FONDA I've worked with wonderful actors like Marlon Brando and Henry Fonda. ELI WALLACH Getting out from under the shadow of Henry Fonda was difficult. PETER FONDA I must have had faith that day. When I went out, I was Henry Fonda again. An unemployed actor but a ... HENRY FONDA I've worked with Bette Davis, John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, Henry Fonda. Here's the thing they ... RON HOWARD My problem was that I was blond. There were no heroes with blond hair. Robert Taylor and Henry Fonda... MICHAEL CAINE Well you're talking about a long career, a lot of movies, a lot of stars. I guess working with H... MARK RYDELL Clarence Darrow was a unique and courageous man. Several of my favourite actors have played Darrow..... KEVIN SPACEY Henry Fonda one time said that every time he had a job, he thought it was gonna' be the last one... BARRY CORBIN I didn't particularly change my name to Fonda because I knew who Fondas were. It's still goi... OLGA FONDA You know who helped me a lot? Jane Fonda. She said, Look at how many times I've been up and I... MELANIE GRIFFITH The people who knew me and knew my work and trusted me, they knew then as they do now that I've ... JACK KELLEY I love Bridget Fonda. RACHEL NICHOLS My career was really odd, because I literally had a greatest hits album out and nobody knew who I wa... KENNY CHESNEY Henry Fonda one time said that every time he had a job, he thought it was gonna' be the last one. An... BARRY CORBIN Fonda and Gary Cooper had the best sense of timing of all the actors I knew. GENE TIERNEY There's so many great Western films. Let's see, 'Red River,' any of those Henry Fond... TIMOTHY OLYPHANT I'm not like Henry Fonda. He lives to act. I've just had a dedication to do the best I could... DON AMECHE We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn... HANOI HANNAH We weren't radical chic. Jane Fonda embarrassed me. We belonged to no political parties. Basical... TOM SMOTHERS I always hated when the studios just kind of said that anybody can act. You look at people like Spen... BOB NEWHART Oh God. I have the best Fonda story. He's awesome. He's Peter Fonda . And so one day we're hanging o... EVA MENDES I didn't know who the hell I was. I was whoever they wanted me to be. NATALIE WOOD When Goldie Hawn wrote her memoirs, no one said Goldie Hawn was snitching. When Jane Fonda wrote her... KARRINE STEFFANS When I was young, many people didn't know what figure skating was. Some who knew of it thought o... KIM YUNA I didn't know what was going to happen with 'Teen Wolf.' I was only scheduled to do four... ADELAIDE KANE So the first job that I got - my father got it for me - he had his clerical collar on, was a gay bar... TORI AMOS I was an aspiring astrophysicist, and that's how I defined myself, not by my skin color. People ... NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON If I have enough ego to say I'm a writer, a director, a producer, and an actor, I should have th... PETER FONDA People always say to me, 'It must have been wonderful coming from old Hollywood, with all those ... SAMUEL GOLDWYN There was a great strain in our family because my father didn't want anything to do with me. He ... CAROL VORDERMAN 'Scarface,' I remember going to see that with my father. We didn't know what to expect; ... LARENZ TATE I didn't start doing graffiti until two years after I got to New York. Jean Michel Basquiat was ... KEITH HARING I didn't want to disrespect my parents, so I never played blues around the house. But I knew the... B. B. KING Thank God I never got in a fight. All of the jock dudes hated me, but all of their girlfriends thoug... MARK HOPPUS When I was a kid, my father didn't really have much hope for me. He thought I was a dreamer; he ... FRANK GEHRY I have no way of comparing myself to other people my age; I can't compare myself with Jane Fonda... DIANA RIGG It was a good experience working with Roger Vadim and Jane Fonda. TERRY SOUTHERN I got a lot of support from my parents. That's the one thing I always appreciated. They didn'... JIM CARREY I always wanted to be the underdog. For me, as a portrait photographer, it's the kiss of death t... PLATON We were marching since we were babies and all we did was make Jane Fonda famous. ROBERT PATRICK This is embarrassing to admit, but I didn't really know anything about Pearl Jam. Of course, I k... WINNIE HOLZMAN You can't learn to write in college. It's a very bad place for writers because the teachers ... RAY BRADBURY I tell people I never got to hear Dylan Thomas read because my husband wouldn't let me, because ... CAROLYN KIZER You know my father as governor, as president, but I knew him as dad. I was so proud to have the Reag... MICHAEL REAGAN When I got married in 1991, I had never been to a wedding, so I didn't know that my wedding was ... NIECY NASH The age of 20 was all about stupid things. I did crazy things but never lost it. I was, you know, a ... AYELET ZURER They say it's good but I didn't know what I was doing until I got into the suit and they put... HARVEY KORMAN I'll bet, ... But you know, I look from the outside at this marriage and I say, 'Jane Fonda did it a... LESLEY STAHL If people didn't know me and only knew my public persona, what I'd want them to know is ever... TONY DUNGY People ask me over and over how is it that I work with stars. How do you work with Barbra Streisand,... SYDNEY POLLACK I thought I was going to make crazy cartoons for the rest of my life. I didn't think I'd eve... MATT GROENING I wasn't all that familiar with the 'Texas Chainsaw' franchise, and I knew who Leatherfa... ALEXANDRA DADDARIO As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial ... JACKIE CHAN I was born in that family. So I don't know the difference between born as an actor's son and... RAM CHARAN I never went to fashion school. I didn't know what a designer was. I knew I had something, but I... RALPH LAUREN There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got ... A. BARTLETT GIAMATTI In many Asian households, to not go on to higher education, that's like a big no-no. I know my p... SANDRA OH All I know is that when I was a kid the Vietnam war was on and Jane Fonda was the own person standin... ROSIE O'DONNELL I knew how to read a contract by 10 years old, but I didn't know what it meant for somebody to c... COREY FELDMAN I didn't know how many people knew who Ferdinand was. ELLIOTT SMITH I saw women's boxing on television for the first time when I was 18, and that's when I wante... LAILA ALI They gave me 18 experiments to complete in my 10 days in the ISS. That's a lot. Everyone told me... YI SO-YEON People are still asking me if I knew Star Wars was going to be that big of a hit. Yes, we all knew. ... CARRIE FISHER I wasn't the kind of kid like Spielberg or Lucas who knew to go to film school. I didn't kno... NANCY MEYERS I was never much of a kid person. I mean, I thought they were cute to look at, but I didn't want... JULIANNA MARGULIES I never knew what basketball was. I started playing on the playground. People used to laugh at me an... PATRICK EWING Fonda was neither wrong nor unconscionable in what she said and did in North Vietnam. TOM HAYDEN The buried code of many American films has become: If I kill you, I have won and you have lost. The ... ROGER EBERT The funny thing is, all my friends are short. I wasn't aware of tall people till I got to high s... KEVIN HART I bought all the books, but I probably knew on the first day that law school wasn't for me. I di... CHARLES SCHWAB I didn't know who Langston Hughes was till he met me backstage. BEN VEREEN Dad taught me everything I know. Unfortunately, he didn't teach me everything he knows. AL UNSER The real Liberace - and I'll preface this by saying that I didn't know the real one - was a ... RICHARD LAGRAVENESE I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the ... CALVIN KLEIN My parents weren't around much, but I assumed everybody's family was the same. I didn't ... STEPHEN SONDHEIM The polls indicated that I was feisty, that I was tough, that I had a sense of humor, but they weren... GERALDINE FERRARO Even when I was at school, I wanted to be liked by everyone, even the bullies. I didn't like the... ALEX KINGSTON I turned up to all my son's performances and baseball games because my father never did that for... DAVID CASSIDY I don't know how to put it, but I don't have many friends. All my friends circle was in Madr... MAHESH BABU I was really desperate. I don't know if you can remember back that far, but when I went to gradu... SHANNON LUCID I always thought, 'Will I go into the business, or will I not go into the business?' But whe... JARED KUSHNER Back then I said to myself 'screw football.' Actually I just took part in this camp as there... ED O'NEILL Til I was 10 years, I didn't know I had only two siblings. I always thought I had 10 and that th... RAM CHARAN I wrote a song several years ago while I was in college called 'Muscadine Wine.' I really di... SAM HUNT When I was eight or nine, I wrote a new version of 'Peter Pan' for the school play. They did... ARTHUR SMITH They keep telling me that my flow's up to date, you know. I guess they thought I was gonna come ... CHERYL JAMES My father thought sport was something fun - he didn't know it was a way to make money. Then I wo... HAILE GEBRSELASSIE When I was younger, I didn't have the finer things in life. It was around me - the cars, the jew... LARENZ TATE I didn't know I was doing film noir, I thought they were detective stories with low lighting! MARIE WINDSOR As a child, I was a brat, and my parents didn't know how to control me. So they told me ghost st... BIPASHA BASU Years from now, after I'm gone, someone will listen to what I've done and know I was here. T... CHET ATKINS I got quite cross when I heard about Emma Thompson adapting 'Sense and Sensibility.' It was ... ANDREW DAVIES As a father, I do everything my dad didn't do. My son Beau's birth changed my life. DAVID CASSIDY I worked on 'Sarah Connor' even longer than 'Firefly.' And I always remembered how g... SUMMER GLAU I was shocked when I came to New Orleans. I never knew there were beggars on the streets here. I did... EMMANUEL JAL I didn't know 'Homeland' was going to be 'Homeland.' I just did it because it wa... DAMIAN LEWIS
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When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts ... PETER ACKROYD I was once part of a Christmas cabaret. I sang 'I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus.' I tap-danc... PETER DINKLAGE The formation of the News America Publishing Group will lead to greater editorial excitement, new bu... PETER CHERNIN Actually when we stopped New Order I was busier than ever. The only gaps have been while we've b... PETER HOOK When I was younger I saw a movie called 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' with Paul Newma... PETER FACINELLI Pirates are the very essence of profit maximising entrepreneurs described in neoclassical economics.... PETER MIDDLEBROOK Buster Keaton's 'The General,' from 1927, I think is still one of the great films of all... PETER JACKSON When I founded the first Hard Rock, no one was serving American food in London; McDonald's wasn&... PETER MORTON Let me say right off the bat that I'm not what you would call a 'tree hugger' or a '... PETER NAVARRO Today, we don't blink an eye when the world's wealthiest individuals donate enormous sums of... PETER DIAMANDIS It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep... PETER SHAFFER A girl once came to my beery flat in Kensal Green, opened the blinds and cooked me breakfast. I marr... PETER CAPALDI I didn't feel the tusk go through me. But I did feel this sort of freight elevator coming down, ... PETER BEARD We can consciously end our life almost anytime we choose. This ability is an endowment, like laughin... PETER MCWILLIAMS Robots already perform many functions, from making cars to defusing bombs - or, more menacingly, fir... PETER SINGER As a kid I quite fancied the romantic, Bohemian idea of being an artist. I expect I thought I could ... PETER WRIGHT There's a part of bohemia I love. The lack of prejudice, the lack of aggression, I love the lack... PETER MULLAN Writing is getting killed by too many chefs. Back in the Bogart days, it started with great scripts.... PETER DINKLAGE It's a younger generation running the show, and I miss the generation we had in the '70s. Th... PETER CRISS Language is a more recent technology. Your body language, your eyes, your energy will come through t... PETER GUBER A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the result of... PETER COOPER Many have changed so much that they have lost the magic of the dream that carried them on their own ... PETER ABRAHAMS Always have a sense of humor about life - you'll need it - but always be courteous to boot. PETER JENNINGS