Top 37 Quotes by Alan Ladd

I never fail to feel let down when I see myself on the screen.

I'm shy and can't for the life of me barge around and slap people on the back. I sit in a corner by myself and am tickled to death when someone comes over to talk to me.

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.

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

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.

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

I'd rather be David Ladd's father than Alan Ladd any day.

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.

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.

I hear about stars being torn to pieces by fans. It never happened to me and I never saw it happen to anyone else.