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

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

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

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.

Strangers still leave me self-conscious.

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.

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.

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

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