Peter Fonda Quotes

People who knew Dad used to say at times I was brought up as the son Dad never had.

I'm estranged from my father and that relationship, as a young man, is incredibly important. It's probably responsible for the man I've become.

I'd been very certain about not wanting to do the acting thing because of my father. I thought I'd always have the father-son thing of 'He got you the part.'

When I grew up, people said, 'You'll never be the man your dad was.' And I said, 'Gee, I hope not.'

One way of reading my life is that I have been in constant search for a father.

I want to be the dad that my father never was.

The way I was parented did affect my parenting - probably in the reverse. My dad was pretty strict, and the next generation probably wants to be less strict.

My parents, they were just really strict on things being perfect.

It doesn't bother me whether I am or I'm not compared to my dad. I do not feel any pressure at all from being his son.

I see my husband and the way he is with his daughters, responsive and alive and sensitive in ways my father would have liked to be. My father would have loved to be a man like that, and he surrounded himself with men like that, but he couldn't be.

Being compared to my father was never a problem for me.

I don't know that I've gotten to the point where people know me more than my dad or that I ever will or even want to get to that point.

We have a whole generation of men who don't understand how much they mean to their kids.

Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father's expectations or make up for their father's mistakes.

Although my parents both liked her, they just didn't approve of a same-sex relationship. Nowadays, people say that you must let children be what they are, but when I was growing up, the parents defined the child - and my parents had a definite vision of how they wanted me to be.

Whether you have an abusive father or the most amazing dad ever, every son is trying to find their way out from under the shadow of their dad.

I grew up never thinking about acting as a profession because that was what my mum did, and often, you don't want to be like your parents.

I don't know what it's like to have a typical father figure. He's not the dad who's going to take me to the beach and go swimming, but he's such a motivational person.

Travis Scott's dad was one of my OGs when I was a kid in Texas. Obviously Travis was nonexistent yet because his father wasn't even married back then.

And I hate to bring this up because I'm a 47-year-old man, but I think I was always wanting my dad's approval. We knew he loved us, but he was a different generation.

My parents did their best - that earns a lot of forgiveness. But they say children grow up in spite of their parents, and I think I did.

My father was always pushing me to become a basketball player. In Africa, when you're a kid, every kid loves to play soccer, and I loved playing soccer. But my dad didn't want me playing soccer. He would joke, 'C'mon, man, you're too tall!' Then he promised me, 'If you start playing basketball, I'm going to give you my jersey.'

I've heard that my father was a really funny man in company, but I never got to see that side of him. I was just 17 when he died, and he didn't know that I was funny.

Especially in front of my dad, I don't like being weak. I don't like crying in front of my dad because I don't want to make him cry.

Everybody's got a father. Even if he's not the nicest guy in the world.