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.
ALAN LADDMaybe I can’t act, but I know the gimmicks. I studied acting all my life and know what’s good for me.
More Alan Ladd Quotes
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If I had my way, I’d do all my entertaining on the front steps.
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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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Nobody’s strong enough to stand up under a flood of weak material.
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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 tried for better roles over and over again.
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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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I was a dummy in school.
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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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Being a good host offsets the deprivation and loneliness of my youth.
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I’m working myself to death.
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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 think any movie star who refuses autographs has a hell of a nerve.
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It never happened to me and I never saw it happen to anyone else.
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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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