20 Best Peter Fonda Quotes

Billy: You must be some important dude, man. Like, that treatment...
George: Dude? What does he mean, dude? Dude ranch?
Billy: Dude!
Captain: Hell no. Dude means - nice guy, you know. Dude means: regular sort of person.
George: Well, you boys don't look like you're from this part of the country.

Captain: [reading inscription] If god did not exist it would be necessary to invent him.
Billy: That's a humdinger!

Captain: I'm hip about time.

Rancher: Where you fellas from?
Captain: LA.
Rancher: L. A.?
Captain: Los Angeles.
Rancher: Los Angeles, is that a fact?

Billy: There's nothin' but sand, man. They're not gonna make it, man. They ain't gonna grow anything here.
Captain: They're gonna make it. Dig. They're gonna make it.

Bradford: Bradford Compton. Perhaps you've heard of me. I'm on Wall Street.
Chief: We don't ride on Wall Street.
Biker: [cutting off Compton's necktie] Yeah, we don't ride on Wall Street!

Captain: No, I mean it, you've got a nice place. It's not every man that can live off the land, you know. You do your own thing in your own time. You should be proud.

Captain: Do this instead.
George: Oh, no thanks. I got some store bought right over here on my own.
Captain: No, man. This is grass!
George: You mean marijuana?
Captain: Yeah.
George: Lord have mercy, is that what that is?

Captain: I keep seeing things jumping all over the place.

Billy: [smoking joints at a campfire in the middle of nowhere] I'm goin' down to Mardi Gras, I'm gonna git me a Mardi Gras Queen. Yeah, oh, man, wow, Mardi, that's gonna be the weirdest trip, you know. You know what we ought to do, man? First thing, man, go and get us a groovy dinner. Yeah, break out some of that cash, man.
[dog barks - Billy barks back]
Billy: Out here in the wilderness, fightin' Indians and Cowboys on every side. What's the matter? You zoned? What? You're really zoned, huh?
Captain: No, I'm just, kinda tired, man.
Billy: You're pullin' inside, man. You're gettin' a little distance, tonight. You're gettin' a little distance, man.
Captain: Yeah. Well, I'm just - gettin' my thing together.

George: See there, twenty-five dollars. Not too bad. No razor blade, you know what I mean.
Captain: Very groovy, George. Thank you.
George: Very groovy. Very groovy.
[to policemen Bob and Pat]
George: See there. I bet nobody ever said that to you!

Stranger on the Highway: You see, what happened here, these people got here late in the summer, too late to plant. But, the weather was beautiful and it was easy livin' and everything was fine and then came that winter. Now, there were 40 or 50 of 'em here livin' in this one-room place down here. They had nothin' to eat, starvin', out by the side of the road lookin' for dead horses, anything they could get ahold of. Now, there's 18 or 20 of 'em left. And they're city kids. Look at 'em. But, they're gettin' this crop in. They're gonna stay here until it's harvested. That's the whole thing.
Captain: You get much rain here, man?
Stranger on the Highway: I guess we're gonna have to dance for that.

Billy: Hey, man! We've done it! We've done it! We're rich, Wyatt. Yeah, man. Yeah. Say, we did it, man. We did it! We did it. We're rich, man! We're retirin' in Florida now, mister.
Captain: You know Billy, we blew it.

George: Well, um, that's got a real nice, eh, taste to it. Though, I don't suppose it'll do me much good, though, I mean, I'm so used to the booze and everything.
Captain: You've got to hold it in your lungs longer, George.

Billy: [while smoking a Joint] Oh wow! What? Who's that man? What the hell was that, man?
Captain: Huh?
Billy: [nervous] No, man, like hey, man. Wow. I was watching this object man, li-like the satellite that we saw the other night, right? And, like, it was going right across the sky, man, and then... I mean it just suddenly, uh, it just changed direction and went whizzin right off, man. It flashed...
Captain: [interupting him] You're stoned out of your mind, man.
Billy: Oh, yeah, man, like I'm stoned, you know, man. But, like, you know, I saw a satellite, man. And it was going across the sky and it flashed three times at me and zigzagged and whizzed off! Man, and I saw it!

Billy: Hey, man, what are you doing? Come over here, I gotta talk to you man. Hey man, everything that we ever dreamed of is in that teardrop gas tank and you gotta stranger over there pourin' gasoline all over it. All he's got to do is turn and look over into it, man, and he can see that...
Captain: He won't know what it is, man. He won't know what it is. Don't worry, Billy. Everything's alright.
Billy: Alright, man. I don't know, man.
Captain: I do. Everything's fine, Billy.

George: That was a - UFO beamin' back at ya. Me and Eric Heisman was down in Mexico two weeks ago, we seen 40 of 'em flyin' in formation. They - they -they've got bases all over the world now, you know. They've been comin' here ever since 1946, when the scientists first started bouncin' radar beams off of the moon. And they have been livin' and workin' among us, in vast quantities, ever since. The government knows all about 'em.
Billy: What are you talkin', man?
George: Well, you just seen one of 'em, didn't ye?
Billy: Hey, man, I saw somethin', man; but, I didn't see 'em workin' here. You know what I mean?
George: Well, they are people just like us. From within our own solar system. Except that their society is more highly evolved. I mean, they don't have no wars, they got no monetary system, they don't have any leaders; because, I mean, each man is a leader. I mean, each man - because of their technology, they are able to feed, clothe, house, and transport themselves equally and with no effort.
Captain: Wow!
Billy: Well, you know something, man, I think, you want to know what I think? I think this is a crackpot idea! That's what I think. How 'bout that? How 'bout a little of that? I think it's a crackpot idea! I mean, if they're so smart, why don't they just reveal themselves to us, huh, and get it over with?
George: Why don't they reveal themselves to us - is because if they did, it would cause a general panic. Now, I mean, we still have leaders upon whom we rely for the release of this information. These leaders - have decided to repress this information because of the tremendous shock that it would cause to our antiquated systems. Now, the result of this has been that the Venutians have contacted people at all walks of life, all walks of life -
[laughs]
George: Yes! It would be a devastin' blow to our antiquated systems. So, now Venutians are mating with people in all walks of life in an advisory capacity. For once, man will have a god-like control over his own destiny. He will have a chance to transcend and to evolve with some equality for all.
Captain: How was your joint, George?

Captain: Do they know you in this place?
Stranger on the Highway: This place we're coming to? Or, the place we're at now?
Captain: This place.

Damien: [Damien walks up to the Wild Hogs after the Del Fuegos leave] The posers. What do you guys call yourselves?
Woody: I'm Woody...
[the others say their names]
Damien: [interrupting] No, no... you all riding together? What do you call yourselves?
Dudley: Hogs... Wild Hogs.
[turns around and shows Damien the back of his jacket]
Damien: [laughs] Wild Hogs. Well, Wild Hogs... ride hard or stay home. Oh, and guys... lose the watches.
[he leaves]

Captain: Have you got a helmet?
George: Oh, I've got a helmet.
[laughs boisterously]
George: I got a beauty!