Peter Fonda Quotes
My abilities grow with each job, whether it's writing or directing. When I stop learing, I'll stop working.
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I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition.
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I have a day job. I can make movies when I want to.
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I think that in Mexico, we must change some practices that were built during the 72 years of predominance in Mexico. Former presidents would just hide away, run away or disappear. And I think it's key in a democracy that presidents face people, see eye to eye to citizens and work to keep on contributing to the - to Mexico.
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I like men who paint or write or do something creative.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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During my childhood, I was surrounded by actors, and all I remember is they were fun to be around. That kind of sticks.
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I think that when you don't look at the good things around you, that you lose sight of all those good things. And you're not going to enjoy your life.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
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Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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I am that guy who will say things that people seem to think is a little edgy, a little racy.
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The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
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I do a medley of hymns in all of my sets, whether I'm in an arena, in a theater, in an amusement park.
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I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.
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Transferring our sovereignty and decisionmaking power to the WTO, to the United Nations, or any other international body is not in the long-term interests of our people.
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Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
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Nobody is going to hand you a music career.
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It's amazing to know that 5 years ago I was writing songs in a basement in the ghetto and now I'm writing for Michael Jackson. I'd be a fool not to say it's a dream come true.
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In America, we all come from somewhere else, and we carry along some dream myth of home: a notion that something - our point of origin, our roots, the home country - is out there.
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Self-made men often worship their creator.
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We all wake up in the morning wanting to live our lives the way we know we should. But we usually don't, in small ways. That's what makes a character like Batman so fascinating. He plays out our conflicts on a much larger scale.
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People who look down never get much of an idea of the sky where the stars are set. And the fellow who doesn't hitch at least one or two of his wagons to a star never gets very high up. Get your eyes off the ground. Look ahead.
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My abilities grow with each job, whether it's writing or directing. When I stop learing, I'll stop working.
