I just want to make pictures that are entertaining. I’ll leave the scenery chewing to someone else.
ALAN LADDI’m no good with words but I’ll find ways from time to time to show you how grateful I am.
More Alan Ladd Quotes
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When I was on the air a lot my throat and vocal chords got tired.
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Time scoots along pretty fast when you grow up.
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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 was a dummy in school.
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A producer has to know all about everything from set-building to costumes to acting.
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I don’t care how small the parts are, as long as they’re good.
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I’d rather be David Ladd’s father than Alan Ladd any day.
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If you don’t vary your tones you can’t get pretty tired of your own voice.
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If you can figure out my success on the screen you’re a better man than I.
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Just as Jimmy Stewart and Tyrone Power get 50 percent of the profits, so do I.
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It’s natural to want your kids to have all the things you didn’t have.
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It’s a funny thing about me. I don’t have any interest in food most of the time now.
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I have the face of an ageing choirboy and the build of an undernourished featherweight.
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Although when I was a kid I was always hungry.
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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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I take our youngsters with us because I don’t know anything that teaches them so much.
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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 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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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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I hear about stars being torn to pieces by fans.
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My parents were so poor when I was a kid, I never went anywhere.
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Nobody’s strong enough to stand up under a flood of weak material.
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I’m working myself to death.
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I’m shy and can’t for the life of me barge around and slap people on the back.
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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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I had only that one picture, Hitler, the Beast of Berlin, in which I had a part big enough to impress anyone.
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