Henry Fonda Quotes

If I would characterize my life, I would say that I was a very lucky actor who came into very lucky times, and got to Hollywood, and was put under contract by Warners in the very last days of the studio contract era, and was privileged to go through that time which is gone now.

I did my very first film with Kirk in Detective Story when he was the greatest, greatest star in the world. I fell in love with him, had a crush on him then.

During Katherine Hepburn's time when she was just coming into her own at 40.

When I came up, guys like Nicholson and DeNiro were held in highest regard.

When my mother signed at MGM, that was the only kind of contract you could sign. There was no such thing as an independent agent.

Movies were invented for Jimmy Cagney, and he was invented for the movies. A perfect match.

My grandmother was an actress too. In the thirties and forties she was under contract with Universal Studios. Crazy credits, lots of them. My dad was also under contract with Universal Studios. And my first film was shot on the same stage they both worked on at Universal.

I was one of the horses of the Louis B. Mayer stable, and I thought the films I was given after my Academy Awards were not worthy.

Stanley Kramer? Spencer Tracy? No one turns down being in a movie with them.

I love to look at The Graduate, or Lawrence of Arabia, or things I had nothing to do with. But you could not get me to go back and watch movies that it was a privilege just to be around them when they were being made.

A lot of actors said they hated the studio system, but I loved it. It was like a college; it was a great place to learn.

Many years ago, I had the pleasure of editing a book by Joan Crawford, who, like Norma Desmond, was still a big star; it was just the movies that had gotten smaller.

Lana Turner taught me how to kiss on the set of the movie 'Diane' in the early Fifties.

The first time I met Brando was on a street corner. I was 14. He was walking down the street, and I saw him coming, and I thought, 'It's Marlon Brando.' And he was wearing what turned out to be his outfit from 'On the Waterfront,' because he was shooting.

I saw I wasn't an ingenue like Debbie Reynolds.

My journey to Sridevi started when I was preparing for my debut film 'Shiva.' I used to walk from Nagarjuna's office in Chennai to a neighbouring street where Sridevi used to live, and I used to just stand and watch Sridevi's house from outside her gate.

I am honoured to have been chosen for an Amitabh Bachchan film.

I was on bed rest because of a fracture for about three months. 'Kabir Singh' happened immediately after that. So it was a good way to get back to work after a break.

When I was in a couple of movies in the '80s, I was winging it.

Now that I am playing a movie star, I am ready to be a real one.

It's not like I'm the lead actor or anything. But it's really cool to be in a Steven Soderbergh movie.

The golden age of Hollywood was the conceit of the movie and the style of the movie.

While growing up, I always wanted to see myself on the big screen - more so because there were no laptops then, and viewing on mobile was a far-fetched dream.

My father was just 9 when he started as a child actor in 'Afsana.'

I can't take 'The Room' and show it to an agent and say, 'Hey man, cast me in something.' It's an alien film.