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

- Alan Ladd

I'm working myself to death.

- 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

Strangers still leave me self-conscious.

- 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

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

I don't care how small the parts are, as long as they're good.

- Alan Ladd

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

- Alan Ladd

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

- 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

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.

- Alan Ladd

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

- Alan Ladd

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

- Alan Ladd

Our children were trained to look after each other.

- Alan Ladd

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

- Alan Ladd

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.

- Alan Ladd

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.

- 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

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

Being a good host offsets the deprivation and loneliness of my youth.

- Alan Ladd