Film Quotes by Henry Fonda
97 quotes
Peter Ames:
[to Melsa] You're up to your beautiful hips in murder!
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Henry Fonda
(as Peter Ames)
in
The Mad Miss Manton
(1938)
Peter Ames:
Listen, before I knew you, I disliked you intensly. When I met you, I disliked you intensly. Even now, I dislike you intensly... that is, the sensible sane portion of me... but there;s an insane side of me that gets a little violent every time I think of you.
Melsa Manton: Getting out of a million dollar lawsuit wouldn't have anything to do with your change in affection, would it?
Peter Ames: You're a nasty creature, aren't you, but in time I'll beat it out of you.
Melsa Manton: Getting out of a million dollar lawsuit wouldn't have anything to do with your change in affection, would it?
Peter Ames: You're a nasty creature, aren't you, but in time I'll beat it out of you.
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Henry Fonda
(as Peter Ames)
in
The Mad Miss Manton
(1938)
Peter Kirk:
Are there many lady doctors?
Helen Hunt: A few.
Peter Kirk: As beautiful as you?
Helen Hunt: No doubt.
Peter Kirk: The time I've wasted being well.
Helen Hunt: A few.
Peter Kirk: As beautiful as you?
Helen Hunt: No doubt.
Peter Kirk: The time I've wasted being well.
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Henry Fonda
(as Peter Kirk)
in
You Belong to Me
(1941)
Peter Lapham:
I'm going to kiss you like nobody was ever kissed!
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Henry Fonda
(as Peter Lapham)
in
Daisy Kenyon
(1947)
Pierre Bezukhov:
[Before the Battle of Borodino] Such an enormous event! All our lives will be different from now on because of what is going to happen here tomorrow.
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Henry Fonda
(as Pierre Bezukhov)
in
War and Peace (1956)
(1956)
Pierre Bezukhov:
I have sinned, Lord, but I have several excellent excuses.
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Henry Fonda
(as Pierre Bezukhov)
in
War and Peace (1956)
(1956)
Pierre Bezukhov:
There are only two things in life that are really wrong: remorse and illness. When I've recovered from them both, I'll go out in the world again.
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Henry Fonda
(as Pierre Bezukhov)
in
War and Peace (1956)
(1956)
Pierre Bezukhov:
You can't hate something you've never known or understood.
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Henry Fonda
(as Pierre Bezukhov)
in
War and Peace (1956)
(1956)
Robert Leffingwell:
I'm an egghead. I'm not only an egghead, I'm a premeditated egghead. I set out to become an egghead and at this moment I'm in full flower of eggheadedness, and I hope to spread the spores of egghead everywhere I go.
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Henry Fonda
(as Robert Leffingwell)
in
Advise & Consent
(1962)
Robert Leffingwell:
Son, this is a Washington, D.C. kind of lie. It's when the other person knows you're lying, and also knows you *know* he knows.
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Henry Fonda
(as Robert Leffingwell)
in
Advise & Consent
(1962)