Happy Birthday Henry Fonda!

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.

Der Gipfel des Ruhms ist, wenn man seinen Namen überall findet, nur nicht im Telefonbuch.

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.

Berühmt bist du, wenn dein Name überall steht, nur nicht im Telefonbuch.

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

Jeder würde sein eigenes Leben gleich viel schöner finden, wenn er aufhörte, es mit dem Leben der Leute von nebenan zu vergleichen.

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.

Ich will, dass du weißt, wie sehr ich dich liebe.

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

Jeder würde sein eigenes Leben gleich viel schöner finden, wenn er aufhörte, es mit den Leuten von nebenan zu vergleichen.

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

Ehemann zu sein, ist ein Job, der den ganzen Mann beansprucht. Wer daneben arbeitet, hat es schwer.

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

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.

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 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 don't want to just sell war bonds. I want to be a sailor.

I hope you won't be disappointed. You see I am not a very interesting person. I haven't ever done anything except be other people. I ain't really Henry Fonda! Nobody could be. Nobody could have that much integrity.

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.

Baby it out. That's an old marble shooter's expression for approaching your target cautiosly instead of trying to take it out with one shot.

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.

I look like my father. To this day, when I walk past a mirror and see my reflection in it, my first impression is: That's my father. There is a strong Fonda look.

I can't articulate about the Method because I never studied it. I don't mean to suggest that I have any feelings one way or the other about it. I don't know what the Method is and I don't care what the Method is. Everybody's got a method. Everybody can't articulate about their method, and I can't, if I have a method - and Jane sometimes says that I use the Method, that is, the capital letter Method, without being aware of it. Maybe I do, it doesn't matter.

I don't want to be in a fake war in a studio.

Money must be, I guess, what first took me to Hollywood. When I first came out, I certainly had NO ambition to make pictures.