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.

Time scoots along pretty fast when you grow up.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Maybe I can`t act, but I know the gimmicks. I studied acting all my life and know what`s good for me.

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

I just want to make pictures that are entertaining. I`ll leave the scenery chewing to someone else.

I don`t care how small the parts are, as long as they`re good.

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

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.

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

I was never trained for anything.

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

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

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

I`m going to make it. Nothing is going to stop me. Nothing. I want it too much.

It`s natural to want your kids to have all the things you didn`t have.

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

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.

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

I think any movie star who refuses autographs has a hell of a nerve.

Strangers still leave me self-conscious.

A producer has to know all about everything from set-building to costumes to acting.

I was a dummy in school.

I learned more about acting from George Stevens in a few months than I had in my entire life up until then.

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 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.

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

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

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.

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.

I`m working myself to death.

Our children were trained to look after each other.

"I have the face of an ageing choirboy and the build of an undernourished featherweight. If you can figure out my success on the screen you`re a better man than I."

"Alan is a big star to everyone in the world except Alan. He thinks he`s in the business on a raincheck." -- Sue Carol, his wife/manager

"That the old fashioned motion picture gangster with his ugly face, gaudy cars, and flashy clothes was replaced by a smoother, better looking, and better dressed bad man was largely the work of Mr. Ladd." - "New York Times" obituary (January 30, 1964)

"Once Ladd had acquired an unsmiling hardness, he was transformed from an extra to a phenomenon. Ladd`s calm slender ferocity make it clear that he was the first American actor to show the killer as a cold angel." - David Thomson ("A Biographical Dictionary of Film, " 1975)