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

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

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

I have the face of an ageing choirboy and the build of an undernourished featherweight. If you can figure out my success on the screen you're a better man than I.

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