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 LADDI just want to make pictures that are entertaining. I’ll leave the scenery chewing to someone else.
More Alan Ladd Quotes
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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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A producer has to know all about everything from set-building to costumes to acting.
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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 take our youngsters with us because I don’t know anything that teaches them so much.
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It’s natural to want your kids to have all the things you didn’t have.
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I never fail to feel let down when I see myself on the screen.
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I don’t care how small the parts are, as long as they’re good.
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I think any movie star who refuses autographs has a hell of a nerve.
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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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Being a good host offsets the deprivation and loneliness of my youth.
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I’m the most insecure guy in Hollywood. If you had it good all your life.
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It never happened to me and I never saw it happen to anyone else.
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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 sit in a corner by myself and am tickled to death when someone comes over to talk to me.
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My parents were so poor when I was a kid, I never went anywhere.
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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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Nobody’s strong enough to stand up under a flood of weak material.
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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
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I was a dummy in school.
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Just as Jimmy Stewart and Tyrone Power get 50 percent of the profits, so do I.
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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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When I was on the air a lot my throat and vocal chords got tired.
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I have the face of an ageing choirboy and the build of an undernourished featherweight.
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I just want to make pictures that are entertaining. I’ll leave the scenery chewing to someone else.
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I learned more about acting from George Stevens in a few months than I had in my entire life up until then
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I was never trained for anything
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