Alan Ladd Quotes

• A man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do.

  Alan Ladd

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• 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

• What good will a tax break do me if I’m crippled for life?

  Alan Ladd

• Strangers still leave me self-conscious.

  Alan Ladd

• Our children were trained to look after each other.

  Alan Ladd

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

  Alan Ladd

• Nobody’s strong enough to stand up under a flood of weak material.

  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

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

  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

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

  Alan Ladd

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

  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 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

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

  Alan Ladd

• If I had my way, I’d do all my entertaining on the front steps.

  Alan Ladd

• I’ve always had a great respect for the picture business. It’s been good to me.

  Alan Ladd

• I’m the most insecure guy in Hollywood. If you had it good all your life, you figure it can’t ever get bad, but when you had it bad, you wonder how long a thing like this will last.

  Alan Ladd

• 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.

  Alan Ladd

• I’m no good with words but I’ll find ways from time to time to show you how grateful I am.

  Alan Ladd

Alan Ladd (38)

Birth:	3rd September, 1913
Death:	29th January, 1964
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor

About

Ladd was born in Hot Springs, Arkansas. He was the only child of Ina Raleigh Ladd and Alan Ladd, Sr. The family then moved again to North Hollywood, California where Ladd became a high-school swimming and diving champion and participated in high school dramatics at North Hollywood High School, graduating on February 1, 1934. He opened his own hamburger and malt shop, which he called Tiny's Patio. He worked briefly as a studio carpenter and for a short time was part of the Universal Pictures studio school for actors. But Universal decided he was too blond and too short and dropped him. Intent on acting, he found work in radio.

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