 I've always had a great respect for the picture business. It's been good to me. |
| I learned more about acting from George Stevens in a few months than I had in my entire life up until then. |
| As long as my pictures go into theaters and we ask people to pay to see what I do on the screen, I should not object if customers want to know what kind of man I am. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| It's natural to want your kids to have all the things you didn't have. |
| I hear about stars being torn to pieces by fans. It never happened to me and I never saw it happen to anyone else. |
| 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. |
| Strangers still leave me self-conscious. |
| 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. |
| If I had my way, I'd do all my entertaining on the front steps. |
| Maybe I thought too much about picking up the money and not enough about the really good parts. |
| I was a dummy in school. |
| 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. |
| I never fail to feel let down when I see myself on the screen. |
| I had only that one picture, Hitler, the Beast of Berlin, in which I had a part big enough to impress anyone. I tried for better roles over and over again. |
