I just want to make pictures that are entertaining. I’ll leave the scenery chewing to someone else.
ALAN LADDI’m the most insecure guy in Hollywood. If you had it good all your life.
More Alan Ladd Quotes
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Although when I was a kid I was always hungry.
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You figure it can’t ever get bad, but when you had it bad, you wonder how long a thing like this will last
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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 never happened to me and I never saw it happen to anyone else.
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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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Maybe I can’t act, but I know the gimmicks. I studied acting all my life and know what’s good for me.
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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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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
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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 never fail to feel let down when I see myself on the screen.
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Nobody’s strong enough to stand up under a flood of weak material.
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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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It’s a funny thing about me. I don’t have any interest in food most of the time now.
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If I had my way, I’d do all my entertaining on the front steps.
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I have the face of an ageing choirboy and the build of an undernourished featherweight.
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