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I love Bridget Fonda.
Rachel Nichols / Actress
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Jane Fonda is someone who impressed me.
Matt Walsh / Actor
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I don't think about the Fonda legacy much.
Troy Garity / Film Actor
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I think Jane Fonda is to be admired for her stands.
Barbi Benton / Model
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Getting out from under the shadow of Henry Fonda was difficult.
Peter Fonda / Actor
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To me, the thing that has always ruined Jane Fonda is her voice.
Florence King / Novelist
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It was a good experience working with Roger Vadim and Jane Fonda.
Terry Southern / Author
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Henry Fonda gave me a spanking during a scene in Spencer's Mountain.
Maureen O'hara / Film Actress
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I've worked with wonderful actors like Marlon Brando and Henry Fonda.
Eli Wallach / Film Actor
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Fonda and Gary Cooper had the best sense of timing of all the actors I knew.
Gene Tierney / Film Actress
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We were marching since we were babies and all we did was make Jane Fonda famous.
Robert Patrick / Actor
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Fonda was neither wrong nor unconscionable in what she said and did in North Vietnam.
Tom Hayden / Social Activist
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If you look at Jane Fonda's first tape, it's like, 'How to injure yourself to music.'
David Kirsch /
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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.
Henry Fonda /
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Henry Fonda's son: That's how everybody identified me until Easy Rider came along. Good old Captain America.
Peter Fonda / Actor
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Good Me Easy
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We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.
Hanoi Hannah /
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Any time you are put in the same category as Jane Fonda, a real legend, it feels surreal, perhaps even undeserved.
Megan Ellison /
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The reason why Three Mile Island makes such a big impact is because of a Jane Fonda movie called 'The China Syndrome.'
Burton Richter / Physicist
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We weren't radical chic. Jane Fonda embarrassed me. We belonged to no political parties. Basically, we were vaudevillians.
Tom Smothers /
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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.
Melanie Griffith / Actress
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Clarence Darrow was a unique and courageous man. Several of my favourite actors have played Darrow... Henry Fonda, Orson Welles and Spencer Tracy.
Kevin Spacey / Actor
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When Goldie Hawn wrote her memoirs, no one said Goldie Hawn was snitching. When Jane Fonda wrote her memoirs, no one said Jane Fonda was snitching.
Karrine Steffans / Author
Jane
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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.
Peter Fonda / Actor
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Thursday
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Time Me People
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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.
Mark Rydell / Actor
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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.
Peter Fonda / Actor
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Me Father Never
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I'm a writer and director. And the movie I've seen a million times is 'Coming Home,' directed by Hal Ashby and starring Jon Voight, Jane Fonda and Bruce Dern.
Jonathan Levine /
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My first impression of Jane Fonda was she is a queen. She is royalty. She walks into the room - any room - and has this presence about her that demands respect.
Baron Vaughn / Comedian
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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.
Amanda De Cadenet / Photographer
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I've worked with Bette Davis, John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, Henry Fonda. Here's the thing they all have in common: They all, even in their 70s, worked a little harder than everyone else.
Ron Howard / Film Director
Common
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Davis
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Jane Fonda was at the top of my list of women to meet and the only time I felt nervous about interviewing someone. She is one of the most dynamic women I have ever had the honor of talking to.
Amanda De Cadenet / Photographer
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Being second generation in Hollywood is complicated: Success is expected, and yet the track record of the second generation is not great. Only a small group of us, like Jane Fonda, have succeeded.
Kirk Douglas / Film Actor
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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.
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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.
Peter Fonda / Actor
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I'm not like Henry Fonda. He lives to act. I've just had a dedication to do the best I could. When I don't have challenges, the days get long. But I do enjoy being on stage. If I do good work, I get a kick out of that.
Don Ameche / Actor
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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.
Barry Corbin / Actor
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There's so many great Western films. Let's see, 'Red River,' any of those Henry Fonda movies are fantastic. Any of those John Ford movies are fantastic. I love all the Eastwood 'Man With No Name' movies, John Wayne, 'True Grit.'
Timothy Olyphant / Actor
Grit
Wayne
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I have no way of comparing myself to other people my age; I can't compare myself with Jane Fonda, can I? I haven't had the work done. I admire the discipline of someone who maintains that degree of beauty, but I'm not prepared to do it.
Diana Rigg / Film Actress
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'The Road to Wellville'... it had Anthony Hopkins, Bridget Fonda, directed by Alan Parker. I hadn't been doing all that well, and I was thrilled to get it, and it just didn't work. It was a terrible movie, but I don't think it's anyone's fault.
Matthew Broderick / Voice Actor
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The buried code of many American films has become: If I kill you, I have won and you have lost. The instinctive ethical code of traditional Hollywood, the code by which characters like James Stewart, John Wayne and Henry Fonda lived, has been lost.
Roger Ebert / Film Critic
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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?
Jeff Gannon / Columnist
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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.
Michael Caine / Actor
Cool
Dark
Dark Hair
Hero
Homely
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My Own
Nice
Problem
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I wish I had gone to Cannes with a film, but I had gone there for L'Oreal Pakistan. I cannot tell you the people that I was around, from Helen Mirren to Jane Fonda. It was a proud moment on the red carpet when they announced my name and said 'Mahira Khan from Pakistan.'
Mahira Khan /
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We Americans forget or rewrite even our recent history, and accomplishments of any group not pale and male have tended to get downplayed or erased - one reason why Gloria Steinem, Jane Fonda and I founded the Women's Media Center: to make women visible and powerful in media.
Robin Morgan / Poet
Jane
Pale
Visible
Accomplishments
Erased
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There is almost a 60-year age difference between Miley Cyrus and Jane Fonda, and one day I trained them both. I would say I trained Jane in her 70s even harder than I did Miley, who's a teenager. I think, as you become older, it's not about working harder: it's about working smarter.
Harley Pasternak / Personal Trainer
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I always hated when the studios just kind of said that anybody can act. You look at people like Spencer Tracy, Henry Fonda - and I'm just talking about the male actors - there aren't a lot who can act. It's a very special talent, and I wish it were recognized as a very special talent.
Bob Newhart / Stand-Up Comedian
Hated
Said
Special
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Talent
Talking
Tracy
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Act
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Anybody
Look People Always
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Henry
Just Kind
Male Actors
Recognized
Spencer
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People ask me over and over how is it that I work with stars. How do you work with Barbra Streisand, with Paul Newman, with Al Pacino, with Sally Field, Jane Fonda, you work with all these people. Isn't this a problem? And it isn't a problem at all. It's terrific. It's great fun. And I don't know what the answer is.
Sydney Pollack / Film Director
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Newman
Streisand
Terrific
Al
Al Pacino
Barbra Streisand
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Great Fun
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