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

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.

Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.

I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow.

Prestige is the shadow of money and power.

Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow.

The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.

I think people would actually be surprised by what we put out. Unfortunately the shadow that the original founders cast was that they were just artists that can't write books so people swept the whole of Image with that paintbrush.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

There stands the shadow of a glorious name.

Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

As for the Pope, I am too old to be frightened by his shadow, and am quite sure his shadow or Substance will do less harm to the liberties of my country than will a party, who seek to acquire political power by exciting religious bigotry in the minds of their duped followers.

There is a shadow on every page.

Bad leadership during the past years has cast on our Party the shadow of great and grave burdens.

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.