Top 100 Ladd Quotes
#1. 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.
Diane Ladd
#2. Heck, I drank no more than John Wayne or Ward Bond or Spencer Tracy or Alan Ladd or Robert Walker. But it got me into a lot more trouble.
John Agar
#3. I'd rather be David Ladd's father than Alan Ladd any day.
Alan Ladd
#4. I was shaped by the heroes in the films I saw, which you always want to emulate and be like. I wanted to be like Alan Ladd, Gary Cooper, Jimmy Stewart.
Robert Osborne
#5. I starred in a Broadway play that was Sidney Poitier's first directing job and the cast was Lou Gossett, Cicely Tyson, Diana Ladd and I played a Jewish kid who offered himself as a slave to two Columbia University students as reparations.
David Steinberg
#6. Acceptance is the letter sealed within the envelope of inner peace. - Charmainism
Charmaine Smith Ladd
#7. There were nine children in my father's family and eight in my mother's. My grandparents did the best with what they had. After the Depression, they were scratching out a living and working hard. They kept the family going.
Cheryl Ladd
#9. Education is so much of an organic unity that, if any of the stages or elements of it be defective, the deficiency is felt throughout all the subsequent growth of the organism.
George Trumbull Ladd
#11. Remember, with each dawn seek guidance, and with each night give gratitude.
Sarah E. Ladd
#13. Our children were trained to look after each other.
Alan Ladd
#14. I learned more about acting from George Stevens in a few months than I had in my entire life up until then.
Alan Ladd
#15. We always seem to be a bit surprised that our children are reflecting stuff that we are showing them. I don't know about you, but every movie that I saw when I was a kid, I emulated. I was Haley Mills for an entire summer and had an English accent.
Cheryl Ladd
#16. The life and fellowship of the church is to be a foretaste of life in the Kingdom of God.
George Eldon Ladd
#17. Many years ago, I used to say, 'I haven't lived long enough to be great.' Now I don't say that.
Diane Ladd
#18. I had to force myself not to be overly protective because I had lost one child.
Diane Ladd
#19. 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
#20. The quality of films out there depends on how much responsibility we're willing to take. I try to play women who are positive and heroic.
Cheryl Ladd
#21. My personality just steps away, and I'm in direct connection when I'm on stage.
Diane Ladd
#22. I've always been a strong family advocate. I had a wonderful family growing up.
Cheryl Ladd
#23. 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.
Alan Ladd
#24. Happiness is a conditioning of the mind and body so that happiness is totally within the way you perceive things and handle situations in life. You choose to be happy; happiness doesn't choose you. - Charmainism
Charmaine Smith Ladd
#25. Chemotherapy is such a hard, hard kiss. Anything we can do to alleviate its side effects should be intelligently explored with an open mind.
Diane Ladd
#26. God had not answered her mother's prayers and she doubted He would answer hers.
Sarah E. Ladd
#27. Every time I start chasing my tail, and I'm trying to control all these elements of my universe, I pray, 'I'm not in control of any of this. I can just do the best I can. Please guide me. Please help me figure how I can move through this in the way You would have me.'
Cheryl Ladd
#28. 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.
Diane Ladd
#29. 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.
Alan Ladd
#30. I don't care how small the parts are, as long as they're good.
Alan Ladd
#31. 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.
Alan Ladd
#32. If I can help get anybody through puberty, I say, 'Good!'
Cheryl Ladd
#33. 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
#34. I always had a trunk full of good reviews. I'd get magnificent reviews, and I'd be standing out on the unemployment line!
Diane Ladd
#36. Psychology assumes that "things" are and "minds" are; and that, within certain limits determined by the so-called "nature" of both, they act causally upon each other.
George Trumbull Ladd
#37. I never fail to feel let down when I see myself on the screen.
Alan Ladd
#38. I only had one focus and one direction, and I knew where my spirit and heart lived, and it was in singing and dancing and acting, being that. I know a lot of young people dream that, but it's good that it worked out for me because it was all I ever wanted to do.
Cheryl Ladd
#39. But what Cecily did not say was how at home the girl made her feel. Talking with children was easy. Talking with adults, not to mention a handsome man, was another thing entirely.
Sarah E. Ladd
#40. What good will a tax break do me if I'm crippled for life?
Alan Ladd
#41. I think any movie star who refuses autographs has a hell of a nerve.
Alan Ladd
#42. The Lotus grows in the most inhabitable of environments, and yet its beauty and purity persevere. A reminder that not all have to conform . . . or settle for what is." - Theodore Teizel
Bridget Ladd
#44. Our great country is rich and abundant in so many ways. It is totally unacceptable to me that we have children and families going hungry!
Diane Ladd
#45. The big thrillers may make people aware of the violence in the society, and I guess that serves a purpose.
Diane Ladd
#46. I'm not a nervous flier. I realize it's still the safest form of travel.
Cheryl Ladd
#47. Old things tell a story, Mr. Gilchrist, just as the lives of people do,' Miss Iverness's dark eyes were fixed intently on him. 'They preserve the past and remind us of how far we have come.
Sarah E. Ladd
#49. Being a good host offsets the deprivation and loneliness of my youth.
Alan Ladd
#50. Not every father gets a chance to start his son off in his own footsteps.
Alan Ladd
#51. I remember having my own apartment and a little used white Mustang car and $3000 in the bank, driving down Sunset Boulevard thinking, 'Wow, it doesn't get any better than this!'
Cheryl Ladd
#52. To accept with unquestioning faith, or to refuse to reconsider any particular view held by the Church in the past, is as unreasonable as it is unsafe. The faith of the Church is a progressive affair.
George Trumbull Ladd
#53. I think life has a way of kicking you in the pants too, but you have to pick up and move ahead, and it certainly helps if you have a good partner in life.
Cheryl Ladd
#54. 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.
Alan Ladd
#55. I love kids. I wanted more. I have two, but I would've had six or seven ... I would have done that if I could.
Cheryl Ladd
#56. I'm terribly sad about Farrah's passing. She was incredibly brave, and God will be welcoming her with open arms.
Cheryl Ladd
#57. T.V. is the place to do the kind of films that were done in the 40s and 50s: the little guy against the system. There are so many opportunities in T.V. to do more character pieces. Everything is so hard-edged in features.
Cheryl Ladd
#58. My mother, grandmother and older sister all cooked, so it was hard to get into the kitchen. So I have no talent for cooking. I was always out in the garage with my dad. I have a tool belt. I'm a repair chick.
Cheryl Ladd
#59. It appears likely that there was no normative pattern of church government in the apostolic age, and that the organizational structure of the church is no essential element in the theology of the church.
George Eldon Ladd
#60. Jesus' words are inseparable from his person. He himself is the message he proclaims.
George Eldon Ladd
#61. I don't think people will ever forget I was an 'Angel', anymore than they'll forget Sally Field was 'The Flying Nun.'
Cheryl Ladd
#62. I always laugh because I used to think the week before anyone saw me on "Charlie's Angels," nobody cared what I ate, how I exercised, what clothes I wore. Nobody was interested and the minute I was on "Charlie's Angels" everything I said was interesting.
Cheryl Ladd
#63. 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.
Diane Ladd
#64. I always wanted to be tall, but I'm not, OK?
Cheryl Ladd
#65. I'm going to make it. Nothing is going to stop me. Nothing. I want it too much.
Alan Ladd
#66. I'm mourning with the rest of the world for the talented, gorgeous, funny, intelligent John Forsythe but my heart is broken for the loss of my dear, dear friend and neighbor. I will miss him terribly.
Cheryl Ladd
#67. Nobody just said, 'Here, be a star!' I've joked many times that I was a seven-year overnight success.
Cheryl Ladd
#68. If you try to talk about yourself honestly when you're an actor, you come off as stuck on yourself.
Diane Ladd
#69. There is no redemption in being one of the 'good Nazis'.
Chris Ladd
#70. As you get older, you develop your style. For me, the simpler, the better.
Cheryl Ladd
#71. You think you're in control, and you're trying to get that square peg in that round hole. You're frustrated, and you realize that you're not in control of everything. You need to just step back and let God.
Cheryl Ladd
#72. Maureen O'Sullivan did 'Hannah and Her Sisters' with Mia Farrow, her daughter, but O'Sullivan had a very minor role.
Diane Ladd
#73. I was never trained for anything.
Alan Ladd
#74. It took 17 years to get 'Rambling Rose' made from the time Calder Willingham wrote the script adapted from his novel. Ed Scherick, the producer, was interested in it. Martha Coolidge was interested in directing it.
Diane Ladd
#75. I walk four miles three or four times a week.
Cheryl Ladd
#76. Maybe I can't act, but I know the gimmicks. I studied acting all my life and know what's good for me.
Alan Ladd
#77. If you can figure out my success on the screen, you're a better man than I.
Alan Ladd
#78. I can do Shakespeare, Ibsen, English accents, Irish accents, no accent, stand on my head, tap dance, sing, look 17 or look 70.
Diane Ladd
#79. You're impatient for your life to start lifting you up and making you happier. You have that backwards: if you want a happier life, you have to make it happen. It's not called YOUR life for nothing! - Charmainism
Charmaine Smith Ladd
#80. Just as Jimmy Stewart and Tyrone Power get 50 percent of the profits, so do I.
Alan Ladd
#81. You know what I did? I turned down an offer to do 'Enemy of the People' with Steve McQueen. It doesn't matter that the film was never really released. A movie like that, successful or not, adds to your credits. It leads to other roles.
Diane Ladd
#82. To work with someone you love is something special, an incredible experience. But it could be a negative. You have to make a strong commitment to be honest; you're not just being polite, like strangers on an airplane; you're working.
Diane Ladd
#83. What the advertisers are trying to do by eliminating residuals is the most appalling form of greed that I cry thinking about it.
Diane Ladd
#84. Positive energy is a wonderful thing. It's your energy not working against you. The choice is yours. - Charmainism
Charmaine Smith Ladd
#85. Time scoots along pretty fast when you grow up.
Alan Ladd
#86. 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.
Diane Ladd
#87. 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
#89. I wanted to be a district attorney and solve hidden problems or maybe even be a leper-colony missionary and save people.
Diane Ladd
#90. Whites and pastels - colors suitable for a girl's come-out, though not always suited to the girls coming out - eddied erratically around gowns in every brilliant hue ladies married, widowed or on the shelf could imagine, and a few they ought not have.
Colleen Ladd
#91. 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.
Alan Ladd
#92. Two things I take very seriously in life. My golf game and my relationship with God. Neither one is simple.
Cheryl Ladd
#93. He cared little for painting. In fact, he hadn't stood before an easel since school days. But if pretending to be interested in art kept a genuine smile on Amelia Barrett's face, he would learn to like it.
Sarah E. Ladd
#94. It's natural to want your kids to have all the things you didn't have.
Alan Ladd
#95. A producer has to know all about everything from set-building to costumes to acting.
Alan Ladd
#96. My mother has rheumatoid arthritis. I don't want to lose the ability to jump up and walk across the room or move around with the energy I'm used to having. That's far more important to me than a wrinkle or two.
Cheryl Ladd
#97. 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.
Diane Ladd
#98. I hear about stars being torn to pieces by fans. It never happened to me and I never saw it happen to anyone else.
Alan Ladd
#99. I'm no good with words but I'll find ways from time to time to show you how grateful I am.
Alan Ladd
#100. I lost so many blessings while confined in the prison of my fear.
Sarah E. Ladd
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