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

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

I was never trained for anything

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

If you don’t vary your tones you can’t get pretty tired of your own voice.

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

I never fail to feel let down when I see myself on the screen.

It’s a funny thing about me. I don’t have any interest in food most of the time now.

You figure it can’t ever get bad, but when you had it bad, you wonder how long a thing like this will last

I’m the most insecure guy in Hollywood. If you had it good all your life.

I had only that one picture, Hitler, the Beast of Berlin, in which I had a part big enough to impress anyone.

It’s natural to want your kids to have all the things you didn’t have.

I’ve always had a great respect for the picture business. It’s been good to me.

I take our youngsters with us because I don’t know anything that teaches them so much.

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.

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

Maybe I can’t act, but I know the gimmicks. I studied acting all my life and know what’s good for me.

Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed.

If we capture any of these ISIS killers alive, they are going to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and we’re going to find out everything they know, because when I’m president, unlike Barack Obama, we will keep this country safe.

It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.

The measure of woman’s distaste for any part of her life lies not in the loudness of her lamentations (these are only an attempt to buy a martyr’s crown at a reduced price) but in her persistent pursuit of that occupation of which she never ceases to complain.

You never make any of the shots you never take. 87% of the ones you do take, you’ll miss too. I make 110% of my shots.

Any time you can degrade or take away the top leadership of an organization, it’s a positive step forward.

Any country that makes U.S. service members get on their knees will feel the full force and fury of the United States of America.

I don’t have any feeling of accomplishment about anything unless there’s a lot of risk to it.