Henry Quotes

The events with Henry III happened, obviously the way it happened, liberties were taken.

I've played Henry Fonda's mother so often that, whenever we run into each other, I call him 'son' and he calls me 'Ma', just to save time.

Henry Kissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized and excluded.

Owing to the difficulty of obtaining horses, Mr. Henry returns from this place. In descending the Mississippi I will request him to pay his respects to you.

Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.

People have all these preconceptions about me. Whereas if you look at the roles, Henry Hill was the nicest guy in 'Goodfellas!' I was a nice guy too in the comedy 'Heartbreakers.' And I was a really sweet father to Johnny Depp in 'Blow!'

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

We felt that although they were patchy, there was a tremendous political energy in the Henry plays.

When I was 13, I told Henry Winkler I wanted to act. He said, Do it and don't let anyone stand in your way. His validation just made it all the more true. I haven't stopped thanking him since.

I've played almost every lead character from Henry VI to Othello. I'm dying to tackle Richard III sometime.

Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize.

I've worked with wonderful actors like Marlon Brando and Henry Fonda.

I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need.

If a guy is over 25 percent jerk, he's in trouble. And Henry was 95 percent.

Someone wrote a piece about Henry Green in The Partisan Review that was so intriguing that I got one of his novels, Loving, I believe, which was the first that came to attention in the United States.

I worked for John Ford, Howard Hawks, Henry Hathaway, Raoul Walsh - I worked for some real good directors.

I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book.

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.

Into the soul of every student I would have instilled the patriotic fervor of Patrick Henry.

I must have had faith that day. When I went out, I was Henry Fonda again. An unemployed actor but a man.

I think Henry Miller has had huge influence not because he wrote about sex, but because the memoir or the nonfiction novel has become such a monumental force in American publishing, if not in literature.

Colonel Parker asked Henry and me to come to Elvis' suite and have breakfast. There were at least five policemen stationed up there. He was talking on the telephone.

John Henry Newman was as English as roast beef, even if he lacked a passion for cricket.

The writer I feel the most affinity with - you said you felt my books are 19th century novels, I think they're 18th century novels - is Fielding, Henry Fielding, he's the guy who does it for me.

John Henry Lloyd is the man I gave the credit to for polishing my skills. He taught me how to play third base and how to protect myself. John taught me more baseball than anyone else.

I had real plans for my next decade and felt I'd worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live to see my children married? To watch the World Trade Center rise again? To read - if not indeed write - the obituaries of elderly villains like Henry Kissinger and Joseph Ratzinger?

The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the smell of birds - the birds were chickens and the flowers dried sunflowers rattling against a wall.

When I was 11, I won my first nationals at Savannah, defeating Kelly Henry in the finals.

And it's impossible for me to read Henry James.

Whereas Schaeffer and Henry were working like samplers, their idea was to capture those sounds which couldn't be serially calibrated because they were too complex in character.