“Although when I was a kid I was always hungry.”

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

Time scoots along pretty fast when you grow up.

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

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

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

I sit in a corner by myself and am tickled to death when someone comes over to talk to me.

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 never happened to me and I never saw it happen to anyone else.

I’m shy and can’t for the life of me barge around and slap people on the back.

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

I’m working myself to death.

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

I have the face of an ageing choirboy and the build of an undernourished featherweight.

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

I tried for better roles over and over again.

When I was on the air a lot my throat and vocal chords got tired.

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Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people.

I think the elections have gone well, although there is so much insecurity in Iraq. So far during the counting of ballots.

My parents told us how they felt but never imposed their beliefs on us, although I appreciate I got a healthy sense of democracy from them.

I don’t feel I ever played the victim, although I was always in jeopardy.

So in that respect I could be called one, although I don’t think I’ll go off the rails.

I’m a big soccer fanatic, and although I support a team called Tottenham Hotspur in London –

I don’t do comedy so much although I would like to do a comedy.