Zitat des Tages über Fonda:
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?
Getting out from under the shadow of Henry Fonda was difficult.
I don't think about the Fonda legacy much.
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 know who helped me a lot? Jane Fonda. She said, Look at how many times I've been up and I've been down. So don't worry about anything.
Any time you are put in the same category as Jane Fonda, a real legend, it feels surreal, perhaps even undeserved.
While Jane Fonda has no shortage of knowledge to share, I was particularly moved and fascinated by her recovery from bulimia, which she battled with for over 25 years.
I've worked with wonderful actors like Marlon Brando and Henry Fonda.
Fonda was neither wrong nor unconscionable in what she said and did in North Vietnam.
Henry Fonda's son: That's how everybody identified me until Easy Rider came along. Good old Captain America.
My problem was that I was blond. There were no heroes with blond hair. Robert Taylor and Henry Fonda, they all had dark hair. The only one I found was Van Johnson, who wasn't too cool. He was a nice, homely American boy. So I created my own image. It worked.
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.
It was a good experience working with Roger Vadim and Jane Fonda.
I must have had faith that day. When I went out, I was Henry Fonda again. An unemployed actor but a man.
Henry Fonda gave me a spanking during a scene in Spencer's Mountain.
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.
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.
Fonda and Gary Cooper had the best sense of timing of all the actors I knew.
We were marching since we were babies and all we did was make Jane Fonda famous.
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.
We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.
I love Bridget Fonda.