You don't become the character.

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.

In this watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stage, I forgot my part before a pair of lovely blue eyes.

I do like to embed a fictional character firmly in an occupation.

But even with a character like Cary who is relatively outlandish, at the end of the movie he's in a place where I wouldn't have expected him to be - taking on the responsibility of a woman who is pregnant and who used to be his best friend's wife.

Always, your work is the same: You have to tell a story, you have to make a character. It doesn't matter if there are thousands of dollars, millions behind it, or if there is nothing.

Each of us is meant to have a character all our own, to be what no other can exactly be, and do what no other can exactly do.

I liked Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer, and that is the kind of character that I would like to have played. That would have been more in tune with who I really was.

It's the difficulty we had with Mr. Bean, actually, when it went from TV to film. You certainly discover that you need to explain more about a character.

In a lot of ways, the make-up was the character.

The more we study the Indian's character the more we appreciate the marked distinction between the civilized being and the real savage.

So many people have said that to me, that what they really like about Alex is what she brings out in Marissa, and what this situation brings out in her, a hint of happiness and another side to her character.

I've been on the show for six years and I don't even know what her history is. I sort of make things up in my mind, but I think it's hard for an audience to follow and invest in a character when they don't have the details.

It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly.

Because I killed a guy in real life, and because my character kills a guy onstage, they said I could never do anything this great again. I resented that.

Well, I go to the theater today, and its curtain - there is no curtain in this play; the lights go down and go up - and we start. And I live this character for two hours. There are only two of us in the play. And It's a complete experience.

I just kind of understood it, and I threw my love for others and love for life into the character, and was having a blast. I loved playing Dharma. I loved it!

I think if you play a character that is fearless, then it's boring. I think that's what was so incredible about Harrison Ford, is that he always seemed like he was never going to survive it, he's always scared, and yet he always does survive it somehow.

If you look to lead, invest at least 40% of your time managing yourself - your ethics, character, principles, purpose, motivation, and conduct. Invest at least 30% managing those with authority over you, and 15% managing your peers.

Every character I play has to be the hero of his own story, the way we're all heroes of our own lives.