#th

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. ↗

— Alan Ladd

#black #close #good #gray #i

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

— Alan Ladd

#acting #entire #entire life #few #george

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

— Alan Ladd

#autographs #hell #i #i think #movie

I was never trained for anything. ↗

— Alan Ladd

#i #never #trained

We are having the single worst recovery the U.S. has had since the Great Depression. I don't care how you measure it. The East Coast knows it. The West Coast knows it. North, South, old, young, everyone knows it's the worst recovery since the Great Depression. ↗

— Arthur Laffer

#coast #depression #east #east coast #everyone

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

#around #back #comes #corner #death

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

#ever #figure #get #good #guy

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

— Alan Ladd

#better man #figure #i #man #out

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

#box #box office #buying #each #everything

How vain, without the merit, is the name. ↗

— Homer

#merit #name #vain #without