Alan Ladd Quotes

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.

If you can figure out my success on the screen, you're a better man than I.

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

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

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

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

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 was never trained for anything.

I was a dummy in school.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

I'm going to make it. Nothing is going to stop me. Nothing. I want it too much.

I'm working myself to death.