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.

Maybe I can't act, but I know the gimmicks. I studied acting all my life and know what's good for me.

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

I was a dummy in school.

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

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.

Our children were trained to look after each other.

I hear about stars being torn to pieces by fans. It never happened to me and I never saw it happen to anyone else.

A producer has to know all about everything from set-building to costumes to acting.

I was never trained for anything.

I'm no good with words but I'll find ways from time to time to show you how grateful I am.

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

I'm working myself to death.

Maybe I thought too much about picking up the money and not enough about the really good parts.

Not every father gets a chance to start his son off in his own footsteps.

I'm going to make it. Nothing is going to stop me. Nothing. I want it too much.

I just want to make pictures that are entertaining. I'll leave the scenery chewing to someone else.

Strangers still leave me self-conscious.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

If I had my way, I'd do all my entertaining on the front steps.

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 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.

Being a good host offsets the deprivation and loneliness of my youth.

Just as Jimmy Stewart and Tyrone Power get 50 percent of the profits, so do I.

When I was on the air a lot my throat and vocal chords got tired. If you don't vary your tones you can't get pretty tired of your own voice.

What good will a tax break do me if I'm crippled for life?

Time scoots along pretty fast when you grow up.

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.

I never fail to feel let down when I see myself on the screen.

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.

Nobody's strong enough to stand up under a flood of weak material.

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.

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.

We all respect sincerity in our friends and acquaintances, but Hollywood is willing to pay for it.

I was lucky enough to occasionally break out of that racist situation that prevails in the Hollywood film production community. But it was racist then and it will always be that way. It will never be otherwise.

Awards were made in Hollywood, in whatever the time it was created. They're to promote each other's movies. You give me an award, I give you an award and people will believe that we are great movies and they'll go to see them. It's still the same.

I've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced.

It could be my downfall, but I don't think it is - Hollywood is run on perception, and if you stray off the path of what you want to do with your career, it's suicide.

The best thing I can think of would be to create a union between something as beautiful and powerful and wonderful as Hollywood films and a criticism of the status quo. That's my dream, to make such a German film.

Growing up in Hollywood it seemed like every kid was the child of some star. We had no idea that other people would think we were special, because there was no other lifestyle to compare it to.

I remember having to take detours around the Hollywood sign to avoid having to see this grotesque poster of myself on Sunset Boulevard.

Hollywood is kind of a bad world.

It's so crazy in Hollywood.

I don't think I ever understood Hollywood.