I've always had a great respect for the picture business. It's been good to me.
Alan Ladd

If I had my way, I'd do all my entertaining on the front steps.
Alan Ladd

If you can figure out my success on the screen, you're a better man than I.
Alan Ladd

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.
Alan Ladd

It's a funny thing about me. I don't have any interest in food most of the time now, although when I was a kid I was always hungry.
Alan Ladd

It's natural to want your kids to have all the things you didn't have.
Alan Ladd

Just as Jimmy Stewart and Tyrone Power get 50 percent of the profits, so do I.
Alan Ladd

Maybe I can't act, but I know the gimmicks. I studied acting all my life and know what's good for me.
Alan Ladd

Maybe I thought too much about picking up the money and not enough about the really good parts.
Alan Ladd

My parents were so poor when I was a kid, I never went anywhere. I take our youngsters with us because I don't know anything that teaches them so much.
Alan Ladd

Nobody's strong enough to stand up under a flood of weak material.
Alan Ladd

Not every father gets a chance to start his son off in his own footsteps.
Alan Ladd

Our children were trained to look after each other.
Alan Ladd

Strangers still leave me self-conscious.
Alan Ladd

Time scoots along pretty fast when you grow up.
Alan Ladd

What good will a tax break do me if I'm crippled for life?
Alan Ladd

When I was on the air a lot my throat and vocal chords got tired. If you don't vary your tones you can't get pretty tired of your own voice.
Alan Ladd