Alan Ladd
Alan Ladd

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

Alan Ladd
Alan Ladd

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

Alan Ladd
Alan Ladd

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

Alan Ladd
Alan Ladd

I'm working myself to death.

Alan Ladd
Alan Ladd

Time scoots along pretty fast when you grow up.

Alan Ladd
Alan Ladd

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

Alan Ladd
Alan Ladd

I was a dummy in school.

Alan Ladd
Alan Ladd

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
Alan Ladd

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

Alan Ladd
Alan Ladd

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.

Alan Ladd
Alan Ladd

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
Alan Ladd

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
Alan Ladd

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

Alan Ladd
Alan Ladd

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

Alan Ladd
Alan Ladd

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

Alan Ladd
Alan Ladd

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
Alan Ladd

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

Alan Ladd
Alan Ladd

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

Alan Ladd
Alan Ladd

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
Alan Ladd

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.