Possessing his father's piercing blue eyes, Peter Fonda also inherited his old man's talent, but not the... (Learn more)
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"I had no idea who Henry Fonda was. He wasn't around the house much and didn't communicate much. Of course you know my mother. She slit her throat with a razor." - Fonda quoted in Esquire magazine, January 2009
"I stepped onto the stage of the Morosco Theater in 1961 for a Wednesday matinee of 'Blood, Sweat and Stanley Poole.' I was in front of all the blue-haired ladies who come up from Philadelphia, and I could hear the murmuring, 'He looks like his father.'" - Fonda quoted in the Daily News, June 11, 1997
"Peter has gone through some difficult times. I equate it with tempering of steel. He emerged stronger and more flexible. He was always a fine actor and is now demonstrating the ability to be a finer actor than ever before." - Roger Corman quoted in USA Today, March 23, 1998
Fonda is known as Peter Honda in Japan for all his motorcycle commercials filmed and aired there.
On Hollywood's prevailing attitude toward him in the years since "Easy Rider" (1968): "'Fonda? That sonuvabitch? Isn't he up there in Montana just loaded on his ranch?' Well, no, I wasn't. I took drugs but I wasn't a druggie. I made an average of 1.3 films a year. Some were, you know, bad. But I did my job well. My father took everything he was offered. I'm sure he wasn't thrilled about being in 'The Swarm,' but there he was." - Fonda quoted in The New York Times magazine, March 22, 1998
Remembering the first time his father verbalized his love: "We both walked slowly to the front door. Once outside, he took me by the shoulders. It was as if he were pushing me away and at the same time drawing me close. Tears were streaming down his cheeks. Slowly and choking on the high-powered emotion, he said, 'I love you very much son. I want you to know that.' I hugged him so hard, I could feel the pacemaker in his chest. Tears streaming down my cheeks, I told him I loved him very much and kissed him on his lips. Something we had never done before. I quickly drove off, stopping at a nearby park to have the good hard cry I needed. Years of frustration fell off my heart like melting snow sliding off a roof." - From Don't Tell Dad by Peter Fonda, excerpted in People magazine, March 16, 1998
Some sources list 1940 as his birth year.
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