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.
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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.
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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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Henry Fonda's son: That's how everybody identified me until Easy Rider came along. Good old Captain America.
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Getting out from under the shadow of Henry Fonda was difficult.
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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.
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Kinda Fonda Wanda
Well, I went with mary lou
Tried peggy sue
Had a date with donna
And barbara ann too
But Im kinda fonda wanda.
Kinda fonda wanda.
Yeah, Im kinda fonda wanda.
cause wanda always wanna, wanna, wanna.
Well, I went out with jenny
Took out skinny minnie
Long tall sally
And short fat fanny.
But Im kinda fonda wanda.
Kinda fonda wanda.
Yeah, Im kinda fonda wanda.
cause wanda always wanna, wanna, wanna.
Did the bop with miss ann
The swim with mary ann,
The stroll with betty lou
Screwed runaround sue
But she wasnt as good as wanda,
No, shell never be as good as wanda.
Im kinda fonda wanda.
cause wanda always wanna, wanna, wanna.
Wanna, wanna, wanna, wanna, wanna, wanna.
Kinda fonda wanda.
Kinda fonda wanda.
Yeah, Im kinda fonda wanda.
cause wanda always wanna, wanna, wanna.
Wanna, wanna, wanna, wanna, wanna, wanna.
Wanna, wanna, wanna, wanna, wanna, wanna.
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I always seemed to disappoint them. They expected me to be different than Henry or exactly like Henry. I was neither.
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Ford didn't know what to do with Mister Roberts that wasn't repeating what was successful in New York. He was trying to do things to the play that would be his in the film.
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My thinking was scrambled when Sullivan and I separated. Something happened to me that had never happend before. I couldn't cope. It was heartbreak time. I thought it was the end of the world.
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I don't know what was in his mind, but I do know Ford was stricken by what he had done, by hitting me.
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No one could have nicer sisters. No sibling problems there.
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If there is something in my eyes, a kind of honesty in the face, then I guess you could say that's the man I'd like to be, the man I want to be.
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It has to do with the fact that Ford, for all his greatness, is an Irish egomaniac, as anyone who knows him will say.
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I'd just as soon not get into a discussion about Jane and her politics. I'd just as soon stick to what we're here for, the picture.
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I've worked with wonderful actors like Marlon Brando and Henry Fonda.
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Henry Fonda gave me a spanking during a scene in Spencer's Mountain.
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I've played Henry Fonda's mother so often that, whenever we run into each other, I call him 'son' and he calls me 'Ma', just to save time.
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I've been close to Bette Davis for thirty-eight years - and I have the cigarette burns to prove it.
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Henry Fonda one time said that every time he had a job, he thought it was gonna' be the last one. And, if you got any sense, you gotta' think that because, you know when somebody's gonna do a dip, some of 'em go pretty far down.
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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.
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