32 Quotes by Alan Ladd
- Just as Jimmy Stewart and Tyrone Power get 50 percent of the profits, so do I.
- I'm working myself to death.
- I've always had a great respect for the picture business. It's been good to me.
- If I had my way, I'd do all my entertaining on the front steps.
- If you can figure out my success on the screen, you're a better man than 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.
- 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.
- It's natural to want your kids to have all the things you didn't have.
- 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.
- Nobody's strong enough to stand up under a flood of weak material.
- Not every father gets a chance to start his son off in his own footsteps.
- Strangers still leave me self-conscious.
- I think any movie star who refuses autographs has a hell of a nerve.
- Our children were trained to look after each other.
- Being a good host offsets the deprivation and loneliness of my youth.
- As long as my pictures go into theaters and we ask people to pay to see what I do on the screen, I should not object if customers want to know what kind of man I am.
- I don't care how small the parts are, as long as they're good.
- 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 hear about stars being torn to pieces by fans. It never happened to me and I never saw it happen to anyone else.
- I just want to make pictures that are entertaining. I'll leave the scenery chewing to someone else.
- 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 was never trained for anything.
- I never fail to feel let down when I see myself on the screen.
- I was a dummy in school.
- Time scoots along pretty fast when you grow up.
- 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'd rather be David Ladd's father than Alan Ladd any day.
- I'm going to make it. Nothing is going to stop me. Nothing. I want it too much.
- I'm no good with words but I'll find ways from time to time to show you how grateful I am.
- 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.
- A producer has to know all about everything from set-building to costumes to acting.
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