26 Quotes by Diane Ladd

After all these years in the business, I really feel that actors are used. People treat actors worse than they treat children. It's always, 'Do me a favor,' it's always, 'Help me out,' it's always, 'You carry the load,' and then they don't want to admit what you've done.

I wanted to do 'Texas Trilogy' on stage. But it didn't do well in New York. In fact, it did very badly there, thanks to the critics. It was said that Preston Jones, the author, died of ulcer complications, but the truth was that the critics killed him.

I lost many a role to actresses who couldn't do the job one-hundredth as good as I could.

They do awful things in the press. One newspaper in England said I was 12 years older than I am, and I was ready to sue.

If you try to talk about yourself honestly when you're an actor, you come off as stuck on yourself.

Many years ago, I used to say, 'I haven't lived long enough to be great.' Now I don't say that.

For 30 years, which I never talked about in Hollywood, I actually worked with doctors lecturing and doing some medical intuitive counseling both in a medical setting and for the community at large.

Did any agents ever put Diane Ladd up for some of the great parts, even though she always got great reviews? No! But do they put up the girlfriend of the studio executive who's gonna do them a favor later? You betcha.

I really can't stand not to be loved. I really can't. If I walk into a room and feel there are people who don't really like me, I have to leave.