Alan Ladd famous quotes

04-12-2025

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

#Acting #Costumes #Building
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.
-- Alan Ladd

#Tired #Air #Voice
I was never trained for anything
-- Alan Ladd
If I had my way, I'd do all my entertaining on the front steps
-- Alan Ladd

#Way #Steps #My Way
Being a good host offsets the deprivation and loneliness of my youth
-- Alan Ladd

#Loneliness #Youth #Host
I just want to make pictures that are entertaining. I'll leave the scenery chewing to someone else
-- Alan Ladd

#Want #Chewing #Scenery
I learned more about acting from George Stevens in a few months than I had in my entire life up until then
-- Alan Ladd

#Acting #Months
I'm working myself to death.
-- Alan Ladd

#Work
I think any movie star who refuses autographs has a hell of a nerve
-- Alan Ladd

#Stars #Thinking #Nerves
I've always had a great respect for the picture business. It's been good to me
-- Alan Ladd

#Great Respect
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.
-- Alan Ladd

#Kids #Parent #Poor
Maybe I thought too much about picking up the money and not enough about the really good parts.
-- Alan Ladd

#Too Much #Enough
Maybe I can't act, but I know the gimmicks. I studied acting all my life and know what's good for me.
-- Alan Ladd

#Acting #Gimmicks
Just as Jimmy Stewart and Tyrone Power get 50 percent of the profits, so do I.
-- Alan Ladd

#Profit #Jimmy
I'm no good with words but I'll find ways from time to time to show you how grateful I am.
-- Alan Ladd

#Grateful #Way #Shows
I was a dummy in school.
-- Alan Ladd

#School #Dummy
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.
-- Alan Ladd

#Men #Faces #Figures
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
-- Alan Ladd

#Roles #Berlin #Beast
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
-- Alan Ladd

#People #Office #Personality
I hear about stars being torn to pieces by fans. It never happened to me and I never saw it happen to anyone else
-- Alan Ladd

#Stars #Fans #Pieces
Time scoots along pretty fast when you grow up.
-- Alan Ladd

#Inspirational #Growing Up #Teenage
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
-- Alan Ladd

#Kids #Funny Things #Hungry
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
-- Alan Ladd

#Insecure #Long #Guy
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
-- Alan Ladd

#People #Shy #Barges
I never fail to feel let down when I see myself on the screen
-- Alan Ladd

#Let Down #Failing #Feels
I'd rather be David Ladd's father than Alan Ladd any day
-- Alan Ladd

#Father
It's natural to want your kids to have all the things you didn't have
-- Alan Ladd

#Kids #Want #Natural
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
-- Alan Ladd

#Play #White #Black
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
-- Alan Ladd

#Wish #Use #Type
I don't care how small the parts are, as long as they're good
-- Alan Ladd

#Long #Care
Nobody's strong enough to stand up under a flood of weak material.
-- Alan Ladd

#Strong #Enough #Weak

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