Alan Ladd Quotes
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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
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Time scoots along pretty fast when you grow up.
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If I had my way, I'd do all my entertaining on the front steps
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I'm no good with words but I'll find ways from time to time to show you how grateful I am.
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Maybe I thought too much about picking up the money and not enough about the really good parts.
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Maybe I can't act, but I know the gimmicks. I studied acting all my life and know what's good for me.
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I'd rather be David Ladd's father than Alan Ladd any day
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A producer has to know all about everything from set-building to costumes to acting
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I hear about stars being torn to pieces by fans. It never happened to me and I never saw it happen to anyone else
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Nobody's strong enough to stand up under a flood of weak material.
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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
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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.
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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
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I've always had a great respect for the picture business. It's been good to me
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I don't care how small the parts are, as long as they're good
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I'm working myself to death.
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It's natural to want your kids to have all the things you didn't have
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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
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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.
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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
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Being a good host offsets the deprivation and loneliness of my youth
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I think any movie star who refuses autographs has a hell of a nerve
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Just as Jimmy Stewart and Tyrone Power get 50 percent of the profits, so do I.
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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
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I was never trained for anything
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I learned more about acting from George Stevens in a few months than I had in my entire life up until then
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I just want to make pictures that are entertaining. I'll leave the scenery chewing to someone else
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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.
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I was a dummy in school.
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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
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