Henry Fonda movie quotes

“Seems like the government's got more interest in a dead man than a live one.”
Henry Fonda - Tom Joad

“I could imagine a life with you being a series of ups and downs, lights and shadows, some irritation, but very much happiness.”

Henry Fonda - Charles

“- Charles: You're certainly a funny girl for anybody to meet who's just been up the Amazon for a year.
- Jean: Good thing you weren't up there two years.”
Henry Fonda - Charles
Barbara Stanwyck - Jean

“- Bill Ray: Well, how does it feel to turn eighty?
- Norman Thayer Jr.: Twice as bad as it did turning forty.”
Dabney Coleman - Bill Ray
Henry Fonda - Norman Thayer Jr.

“I'll be all around in the dark. I'll be everywhere - wherever you can look. Wherever there's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there. Wherever there's a cop beating up a guy, I'll be there.”

Henry Fonda - Tom Joad

“- Norman Thayer Jr.: You like that word, don't you? Bullshit.
- Billy Ray: Yeah.
- Norman Thayer Jr.: It's a good word.”
Henry Fonda - Norman Thayer Jr.
Doug McKeon - Billy Ray

“Law is a lot more than words you put in a book, or judges or lawyers or sheriffs you hire to carry it out. It's everything people ever have found out about justice and what's right and wrong. It's the very conscience of humanity.”

Henry Fonda - Gil Carter

“A man just naturally can't take the law into his own hands and hang people without hurting everybody in the world, 'cause then he's just not breaking one law but all laws.”

Henry Fonda - Gil Carter

“A girl of sixteen's practically an idiot anyway, so I can't very well blame you for something that was practically done by somebody else.”

Henry Fonda - Charles

“- Old Prospector: What are you prospecting?
- Beaudray Demerille: Oh, ah, silver...
- Wanda Nevada: ...and gold!
- Beaudray Demerille: Shh!
- Old Prospector: Everyone knows there is no gold in the Grand Canyon!”
Henry Fonda - Old Prospector
Peter Fonda - Beaudray Demerille
Brooke Shields - Wanda Nevada

“What I'm trying to say is - only I'm not a poet, I'm an ophiologist - I've always loved you. I've never loved anyone but you. I know that sounds dull as a drugstore novel, and what I see inside I'll never be able to cast into words, but that's what I mean. I wish we were married and on our honeymoon now.”

Henry Fonda - Charles

“Would you like the room where I first violated her mother?”

Henry Fonda - Norman Thayer Jr.

“- Charles: Are you an adventuress?
- Jean: Of course I am. All women are. They have to be. If you waited for a man to propose to you from natural causes, you'd die of old maidenhood.”
Henry Fonda - Charles
Barbara Stanwyck - Jean

“It takes no nerve to do something, ain't nothing else you can do.”
Henry Fonda - Tom Joad

“We seem to lose our heads in times like this. We do things together that we'd be mighty ashamed to do by ourselves!”
Henry Fonda - Abraham Lincoln

“- Prosecutore John Felder: Mr. Lincoln should know that the mere fact that a prospective juror knows counsel for the state does not disqualify him.
- Abraham Lincoln: I know that, John. What I'm afraid of is that some of the jurors might not know you... and that'd put me at a great disadvantage.”

Donald Meek - Prosecutor John Felder
Henry Fonda - Abraham Lincoln