Alan ladd quotes

When I was on the air a lot my throat and vocal chords got tired. If you don't vary your tones you can't get pretty tired of your own voice.

I'd rather be David Ladd's father than Alan Ladd any day

I just want to make pictures that are entertaining. I'll leave the scenery chewing to someone else

I'm the most insecure guy in Hollywood. If you had it good all your life, you figure it can't ever get bad, but when you had it bad, you wonder how long a thing like this will last

I learned more about acting from George Stevens in a few months than I had in my entire life up until then

I never fail to feel let down when I see myself on the screen.

Being a good host offsets the deprivation and loneliness of my youth

I think any movie star who refuses autographs has a hell of a nerve

I've always had a great respect for the picture business. It's been good to me

It's natural to want your kids to have all the things you didn't have

I'm shy and can't for the life of me barge around and slap people on the back. I sit in a corner by myself and am tickled to death when someone comes over to talk to me

I have the face of an ageing choirboy and the build of an undernourished featherweight. If you can figure out my success on the screen you're a better man than I.

Just as Jimmy Stewart and Tyrone Power get 50 percent of the profits, so do I.

It seems only reasonable that the people have a right to know virtually everything about the personality they are buying each time they put their money through the box office

Maybe I thought too much about picking up the money and not enough about the really good parts.

My parents were so poor when I was a kid, I never went anywhere. I take our youngsters with us because I don't know anything that teaches them so much.

I'm working myself to death.

If I had my way, I'd do all my entertaining on the front steps

I was never trained for anything

I'm no good with words but I'll find ways from time to time to show you how grateful I am.

Nobody's strong enough to stand up under a flood of weak material.

I know what's good for me. I can't play black or gray. I can't be a villain or anything close to one. I have to play white

I had only that one picture, Hitler, the Beast of Berlin, in which I had a part big enough to impress anyone. I tried for better roles over and over again

I don't care how small the parts are, as long as they're good

It's a funny thing about me. I don't have any interest in food most of the time now, although when I was a kid I was always hungry

I was a dummy in school.

Time scoots along pretty fast when you grow up.

Maybe I can't act, but I know the gimmicks. I studied acting all my life and know what's good for me.

I wish I were the type who could walk into a place and have everybody love me. But I'm not, and there's no use wishing

I hear about stars being torn to pieces by fans. It never happened to me and I never saw it happen to anyone else

A producer has to know all about everything from set-building to costumes to acting