My parents were so poor when I was a kid, I never went anywhere.
ALAN LADDBeing a good host offsets the deprivation and loneliness of my youth.
More Alan Ladd Quotes
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I don’t care how small the parts are, as long as they’re good.
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I was never trained for anything
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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’m shy and can’t for the life of me barge around and slap people on the back.
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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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When I was on the air a lot my throat and vocal chords got tired.
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Just as Jimmy Stewart and Tyrone Power get 50 percent of the profits, so do I.
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It never happened to me and I never saw it happen to anyone else.
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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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Although when I was a kid I was always hungry.
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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 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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A producer has to know all about everything from set-building to costumes to acting.
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If I had my way, I’d do all my entertaining on the front steps.
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