- Legacy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fonda Quotes
On the Fonda family legacy and its place in film history.
These quotes reference the Fonda acting family, especially Jane Fonda, including a memory of feeling embarrassed by her politics despite belonging to no political parties and a nod to the film 'Coming Home' starring Jon Voight, Jane Fonda, and Bruce Dern. Discover more in our American quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
We weren't radical chic. Jane Fonda embarrassed me. We belonged to no political parties. Basically, we were vaudevillians.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The buried code of many American films has become: If I kill you, I have won and you have lost. The instinctive ethical code of traditional Hollywood, the code by which characters like James Stewart, John Wayne and Henry Fonda lived, has been lost.
- Forget
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- Nov 07, 2020
We Americans forget or rewrite even our recent history, and accomplishments of any group not pale and male have tended to get downplayed or erased - one reason why Gloria Steinem, Jane Fonda and I founded the Women's Media Center: to make women visible and powerful in media.
- Famous
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- Nov 07, 2020
We were marching since we were babies and all we did was make Jane Fonda famous.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't particularly change my name to Fonda because I knew who Fondas were. It's still going to remain a mystery. I keep it as a mystery. So, maybe one day I'll tell the story of how I changed my last name.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well you're talking about a long career, a lot of movies, a lot of stars. I guess working with Henry Fonda and Katherine Hepburn was a great privilege.
- Memoirs
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- Nov 07, 2020
When Goldie Hawn wrote her memoirs, no one said Goldie Hawn was snitching. When Jane Fonda wrote her memoirs, no one said Jane Fonda was snitching.
- Director
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a writer and director. And the movie I've seen a million times is 'Coming Home,' directed by Hal Ashby and starring Jon Voight, Jane Fonda and Bruce Dern.
- America
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since There are so many questions about what the president was doing over 30 years ago, what is it that he did after his honorable discharge from the National Guard? Did he make speeches alongside Jane Fonda denouncing America's racist war in Vietnam?
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
I must have had faith that day. When I went out, I was Henry Fonda again. An unemployed actor but a man.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.
- Big Impact
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reason why Three Mile Island makes such a big impact is because of a Jane Fonda movie called 'The China Syndrome.'
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020