My parents were so poor when I was a kid, I never went anywhere.
ALAN LADDI learned more about acting from George Stevens in a few months than I had in my entire life up until then
More Alan Ladd Quotes
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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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If you don’t vary your tones you can’t get pretty tired of your own voice.
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Nobody’s strong enough to stand up under a flood of weak material.
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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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It’s natural to want your kids to have all the things you didn’t have.
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I was a dummy in school.
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I never fail to feel let down when I see myself on the screen.
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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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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 tried for better roles over and over again.
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I’m working myself to death.
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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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It never happened to me and I never saw it happen to anyone else.
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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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