A biography for Alan Laddhasn’t been written yet.
“What good will a tax break do me if I'm crippled for life?”
“I was a dummy in school.”
“Our children were trained to look after each other.”
“I'd rather be David Ladd's father than Alan Ladd any day.”
“I'm going to make it. Nothing is going to stop me. Nothing. I want it too much.”
“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'm no good with words but I'll find ways from time to time to show you how grateful 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.”
“I learned more about acting from George Stevens in a few months than I had in my entire life up until then.”
“If you can figure out my success on the screen, you're a better man than I.”
“Nobody's strong enough to stand up under a flood of weak material.”
“A producer has to know all about everything from set-building to costumes to acting.”
“Maybe I can't act, but I know the gimmicks. I studied acting all my life and know what's good for me.”
“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.”
“If I had my way, I'd do all my entertaining on the front steps.”
“I've always had a great respect for the picture business. It's been good to me.”
“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.”