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Henry Fonda Quotes

• For me, college wasn't a breeze. I had 8 o'clock classes, I worked from 3 to 11 at the Settlement House. On weekends, if Northwestern Bell needed me, I'd troubleshoot for them, and I had a steady girl. God!

• 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.

• Good God, look at the Orioles. I always knew Baltimore was a sneaky town.

• I didn't help or discourage them or lead them by the hand. I'm not trying to set myself up as a good father, because I wasn't a good father. But I think I knew instinctively that if they did make it, they would like to know they'd done it on their own. I recognize all the problems my children have had, and I don't claim any credit for what they've become. They've become what they are in spite of me.

• I don't know what was in his mind, but I do know Ford was stricken by what he had done, by hitting me.

• I don't think there's anybody better when he wants to be good.

• I found myself facing a Christian Science Reading Room. My God! It had been eight years. There had never been any renunciation of religion on my part, but like so many people, it was a gradual fading away.

• I must have had faith that day. When I went out, I was Henry Fonda again. An unemployed actor but a man.

• 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.

• I'm not that pristine pure, I guess I've broken as many rules as the next feller. But I reckon my face looks honest enough and if people buy it, Hallelujah.

• It has to do with the fact that Ford, for all his greatness, is an Irish egomaniac, as anyone who knows him will say.

• I've been close to Bette Davis for thirty-eight years - and I have the cigarette burns to prove it.

• 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.

• My whole damn family was nice. I don't think I've imagined it. It's true. Maybe it has to do with being brought up as Christian Scientists. Half of my relatives were Readers or Practitioners in the church.

• No one could have nicer sisters. No sibling problems there.

 

Henry Fonda Filmography

Actor

1981 - Summer Solstice
1981 - On Golden Pond
1980 - Gideon's Trumpet
1980 - The Oldest Living Graduate
1980 - The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
1979 - Family
1979 - Meteor
1979 - Wanda Nevada
1979 - City on Fire
1978 - The Swarm
1978 - Fedora
1978 - Home to Stay
1978 - Grande attacco, Il
1977 - The Last of the Cowboys
1977 - Rollercoaster
1977 - Tentacoli
1977 - Soldier's Home
1976 - Captains and the Kings
1976 - Midway
1976 - Almos' a Man
1976 - Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur
1974 - Mussolini: Ultimo atto
1973 - Mio nome è Nessuno, Il
1973 - Ash Wednesday
1973 - The Alpha Caper
1973 - Serpent, Le
1973 - The Red Pony
1971-1972 - The Smith Family
1971 - Sometimes a Great Notion
1970 - There Was a Crooked Man...
1970 - The Cheyenne Social Club
1970 - Too Late the Hero
1970 - The Bill Cosby Show
1969 - The Kraft Music Hall
1968 - C'era una volta il West
1968 - Pat Paulsen for President
1968 - The Boston Strangler
1968 - Yours, Mine and Ours
1968 - Madigan
1968 - Firecreek
1967 - Stranger on the Run
1967 - Welcome to Hard Times
1967 - All About People
1966 - A Big Hand for the Little Lady
1966 - NBC White Paper
1965 - Battle of the Bulge
1965 - The Dirty Game
1965 - In Harm's Way
1965 - The Rounders
1964 - Sex and the Single Girl
1964 - Fail-Safe
1964 - The Best Man
1963 - Spencer's Mountain
1963 - The Dick Powell Show
1962 - How the West Was Won
1962 - The Longest Day
1962 - Advise & Consent
1962 - San Francisco Fire
1959 - The Man Who Understood Women
1959 - Warlock
1958 - Stage Struck
1958 - Rangers of Yellowstone
1957 - The Tin Star
1957 - 12 Angry Men
1956 - The Wrong Man
1956 - War and Peace
1955 - Mister Roberts
1953 - Medallion Theatre
1951 - Benjy
1950 - Showtime, U.S.A.
1949 - Jigsaw
1948 - Fort Apache
1948 - On Our Merry Way
1947 - Daisy Kenyon
1947 - The Fugitive
1947 - The Long Night
1946 - My Darling Clementine
1943 - The Ox-Bow Incident
1943 - Immortal Sergeant
1942 - The Big Street
1942 - Tales of Manhattan
1942 - The Magnificent Dope
1942 - The Male Animal
1942 - Rings on Her Fingers
1941 - You Belong to Me
1941 - Wild Geese Calling
1941 - The Lady Eve
1940 - Chad Hanna
1940 - The Return of Frank James
1940 - Lillian Russell
1940 - The Grapes of Wrath
1939 - Drums Along the Mohawk
1939 - Young Mr. Lincoln
1939 - The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
1939 - Let Us Live
1939 - Jesse James
1938 - The Mad Miss Manton
1938 - Spawn of the North
1938 - Blockade
1938 - Jezebel
1938 - I Met My Love Again
1937 - That Certain Woman
1937 - Slim
1937 - You Only Live Once
1937 - Wings of the Morning
1936 - Spendthrift
1936 - The Moon's Our Home
1936 - The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
1935 - I Dream Too Much
1935 - Way Down East
1935 - The Farmer Takes a Wife

Soundtrack

1970 - The Cheyenne Social Club
1959 - Warlock
1942 - Rings on Her Fingers
1941 - The Lady Eve
1940 - The Grapes of Wrath
1939 - Young Mr. Lincoln
1937 - Slim
1937 - You Only Live Once
1936 - The Trail of the Lonesome Pine

Producer

1959-1961 - The Deputy
1957 - 12 Angry Men

Appearances

1971 - Directed by John Ford
1982 - Let Poland Be Poland
1981 - The 53rd Annual Academy Awards
1981 - Starring Katharine Hepburn
1981 - Henry Fonda and the Making of 'Summer Solstice'
1980 - The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
1980 - The American Film Institute Salute to James Stewart
1980 - The Golden Honeymoon
1980 - Bob Hope's Overseas Christmas Tours
1980 - Sharks: The Death Machine
1980 - The Greatest Man in the World
1980 - Henry Fonda oder Die Qualität der Prärie
1979 - The Kennedy Center Honors
1979 - The 33rd Annual Tony Awards
1979 - The American Film Institute Salute to Alfred Hitchcock
1978 - A Special Sesame Street Christmas
1978 - A Salute to American Imagination
1978 - General Electric's All-Star Anniversary
1978 - The American Film Institute Salute to Henry Fonda
1978 - Leaders of the Twentieth Century
1978 - America's Sweetheart: The Mary Pickford Story
1978 - Inside 'The Swarm'
1978 - Dean Martin Celebrity Roast
1977 - An All-Star Tribute to Elizabeth Taylor
1977 - The American Film Institute's 10th Anniversary Special
1977 - The American Film Institute Salute to Bette Davis
1976 - Life Goes to the Movies
1976 - The Merv Griffin Show
1976 - The American Film Institute Presents a Salute to William Wyler
1976 - The Glory Road West
1975 - Parkinson
1975 - The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Lucille Ball
1974 - All in the Family
1974 - Clarence Darrow
1974 - The 28th Annual Tony Awards
1973 - The Dean Martin Show
1973 - The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1973 - The American Film Institute Salute to John Ford
1972 - The 26th Annual Tony Awards
1971 - The American West of John Ford
1971 - Directed by John Ford
1969 - To Save a Soldier
1969 - Hollywood: The Selznick Years
1969 - An Impression of John Steinbeck
1968 - The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
1968 - Beans, Bullets, and Black Oil
1967 - The Joey Bishop Show
1966 - Born to Buck
1961-1966 - What's My Line?
1966 - The Really Big Family
1965 - Time-Life Specials: The March of Time
1964 - The Bell Telephone Hour
1964 - Today
1963 - The Great Stars
1962 - The Fabulous Era
1952-1962 - Toast of the Town
1962 - Henry Fonda and the Family
1958-1960 - The Steve Allen Show
1960 - The Fabulous Fifties
1957 - Eight Steps to Peace
1953 - Main Street to Broadway
1951 - Pictura
1949 - On Stage!
1942 - It's Everybody's War
1942 - The Battle of Midway
1941 - Hollywood Meets the Navy
1938 - Breakdowns of 1938

Archive Footage

2008 - President Hollywood
2008 - Strictly Courtroom
2008 - How the West Was Lost
2008 - Inside the Jury Room
2008 - The 80th Annual Academy Awards
2006 - Sacco and Vanzetti
2005 - Marató 2005, La
2004 - Roma
2003 - An Opera of Violence
2001 - The Making of 'Midway'
2001 - America's Most Heart-Pounding Movies
1999 - ABC 2000: The Millennium
1998 - The Best of Hollywood
1996 - The 50th Annual Tony Awards
1993 - Classe américaine, La
1992 - Fonda on Fonda
1992 - Gunfighters of the Old West
1990 - John Ford
1976 - America at the Movies

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