I knew Henry Fonda was my father, but I didn't know who I was. They all thought of me as Henry Fonda's son. Unfortunately for them, they never got to know me.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
People ask me from time to time what it was like growing up with Henry Fonda as my father. I say, Ever see Fort Apache? He was like Colonel Thursday.
Henry Fonda's son: That's how everybody identified me until Easy Rider came along. Good old Captain America.
I must have had faith that day. When I went out, I was Henry Fonda again. An unemployed actor but a man.
It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
I never knew my father. He'd disappeared from the scene before I was born, and I still have no idea who he is. Perhaps strangely, it's never bothered me; I certainly don't believe it's really affected me.
I grew up with the one of the most famous fathers in the world in the 1960s and '70s. He passed away in 1984, and as time went on, people didn't know him. That blew me away.
I didn't know my father very well; I only met him a few times.
You know my father as governor, as president, but I knew him as dad. I was so proud to have the Reagan name and to be Ronald Reagan's son.
I never knew my father. He was never married to my mother; he was never a part of my life. It was just my mom, my brother and me.
Because Dad was famous, I was so used to being identified as 'John Huston's daughter' that I couldn't think of myself as anyone else.