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Peter Fonda

"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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"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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Donna Grant

"To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible."

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Donna Grant

"I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father."

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Donna Grant

"I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me."

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Donna Grant

"Dad made it to Gold Shield Detective, so he always busted Robin, my oldest brother, and me. Always got caught, whatever we were doing."

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Donna Grant

"My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918."

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Donna Grant

"I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude."

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Donna Grant

"What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason."

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Donna Grant

"The most significant piece of advice my father gave me early on about acting was, don't get caught acting. Really believe in what you're doing and then commit to it. Even if it feels uncomfortable, even if you feel that you're gonna look like an ass. It's all acting, but find the truth in a moment as opposed to just pretending you have and rather than trying to act your way out of it."

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Donna Grant

"I would ask my dad what he did, and he'd say, 'I listen to people's problems.' In some way what he did for a living is in my genes."

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Donna Grant

"My dad? He died when I was 19, which is a bad time for your dad to die, because there's an awful lot of things you have to resolve with your parents past your teens if you've been a difficult teenager."

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Peter Fonda
"You don't become the character."

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Peter Fonda
"The word courage - God, I love that word. Words are so important to me."

Love

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Peter Fonda
"I don't trust anybody who didn't inhale."

Trust

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Peter Fonda
"I truly miss the genius of the music of John Lennon, as I'm sure everybody does."

Music

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Peter Fonda
"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."

Time

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Peter Fonda
"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."

Time

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Peter Fonda
"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!"

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Peter Fonda
"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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Peter Fonda
"I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality."

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Peter Fonda
"Getting out from under the shadow of Henry Fonda was difficult."

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