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

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 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.

My parents were so poor when I was a kid, I never went anywhere.

Although when I was a kid I was always hungry.

I hear about stars being torn to pieces by fans.

We are often unaware of how much we love the people around us. This is true for everyone.

No matter what happens around us, or to us, through love, our soul reaches immortality, conquering all dimensions and all destinies.

The stories themselves haunt, they stick around, they linger, inhabiting a little corner of the reader’s brain and resurfacing to evoke mystery or sadness or longing.

Movements of people create change – not just any one person or organization, but when lots of people are in motion around a shared vision.

I’m not running around as a continual ray of sunshine. It’s just I don’t believe in wasting time feeling sorry for myself. Get over it.

What is my task? To get the gospel around the world in the shortest possible time to every man and woman and boy and girl!

I may call it jealousy, or may be anxiety and moreover, need. Even now I’m anxious at times because when I am with Ren, everything around feels like a dream.

I feel that I’ve lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability.