Every director is so different from every other one.

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

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

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!

Every director is so different from every other one.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

When Jane and I spoke out, people thought, What ungrateful children those two kids are to be that nasty about their father.

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.

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.

My abilities grow with each job, whether it's writing or directing. When I stop learing, I'll stop working.

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 don't trust anybody who didn't inhale.

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

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.

You don't become the character.

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.

I've always internalized things.

The word courage - God, I love that word. Words are so important to me.

It's wonderful to me that bees have this simple, age-old thing going on.

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

Bob Dylan is out of the mentorship of Allen Ginsberg.

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

Lennon was not very fond of me. Lennon didn't like to be around somebody else who was likely to be the center of attention and didn't like being on deck with somebody who was intellectually as hot as he was.

I was famous from birth.

Regular chiropractic adjustments go hand in hand with good health.

The World Trade Organization is an organization that defends trade interests. I think the problem is less that they exist. The problem is that internationally we've only got an organization that protects trade interests. Surely we need some kind of counterweight to protect human rights and the environment, too.

I don't want to play 10 years and then die of a heart attack when I'm 40.

You know golf is very lonely. When I'm in the States, I feel like if I just think about Taiwan, my friends, my fans, I won't feel like I'm alone.

The 'fiscal cliff' is a ruse, an invention by the right and the rich, to try and keep their huge tax breaks.

I became a Republican in the summer of 1972. I was involved in running President Nixon's re-election campaign in California and became part of his administration at the start of his second term.

The myth of unending consumption has taken the place of the belief in life everlasting.

Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.

To the extent we push meat a little bit to the side and move vegetables to the center of our diet, we're also going to be a lot healthier.

Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.

I think anybody who looks at my record will say I've been trying to cut government spending and make government live more like families do.

While most people turn 21 and decide to go out and party, I turned 21 and decided that I was going to become somebody that I never thought I could be: somebody who cares about herself and her body, her future, and her health.

The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.

Reading with my children is incredibly important to me and a wonderful way to spend time together as a family, exploring magical worlds through books and stories.

I guess we guess our way through life. How many times do we really know for sure?

I'm going out to play, and to play to win.

Overall, the challenge of leadership is both moral and one of developing the characteristics that make us respected by one another.

Therapy is like telling your nightmares when you're a kid; they lose their power to hurt and control.

I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.