The best Quotes by Alan Ladd

The best Quotes by Alan Ladd

Alan Walbridge Ladd (September 3, 1913 – January 29, 1964) was an American actor and film producer. He appeared in This Gun for Hire (1942), The Glass Key (1942), The Blue Dahlia (1946), Whispering Smith (1948), Shane (1953), Two Years Before the Mast (1946), and The Great Gatsby (1949).

Time scoots along pretty fast when you grow up.

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.

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

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

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

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The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Great Gatsby

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Solitude & Loneliness

He looked at her the way all women wanted to be looked at by a man.

F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Great Gatsby

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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Great Gatsby

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Then he kissed her. At his lips’ touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.

F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Great Gatsby

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All right... I'm glad it's a girl. And I hope she'll be a fool--that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Great Gatsby

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Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.

F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Great Gatsby

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I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.

F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Great Gatsby

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Curiosity Falling in love

Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.

F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Great Gatsby

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And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Great Gatsby

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It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.

F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Great Gatsby

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Gatsby turned out all right in the end. It is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men.

F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Great Gatsby

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Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.

F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Great Gatsby

California has officially announced that jaywalking is now no longer a crime. So congratulations to the Californians who like walking places. This is great news for the six of you.

Trevor Noah in The Daily Show - October 2022

New Mexico. It's another state. I mean, it's like California, just less traffic.

Lalo Salamanca in Better Call Saul - Season 6 Episode 5

California New Mexico

We all have our little faults. Mine's in California.

Lex Luthor in Superman

All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year.

Gloria Swanson

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Helsinki may not be as cold as you make it out to be, but California is still a lot nicer. I don't remember the last time I couldn't walk around in shorts all day.

Linus Torvalds

California Helsinki

The apparent ease of California life is an illusion, and those who believe the illusion real live here in only the most temporary way.

Joan Didion

Things are tough all over, cupcake. An' it rains on the just an' the unjust alike... except in California.

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Justice California

I read the Life magazine articles about free love and free dope in California. At age 20 I drove to Los Angeles.

Los Angeles California

That's the great thing about California, you can almost go to the mountains and almost go to the beach on the same day.

Leonard Hofstadter in The Big Bang Theory - Season 11 Episode 11

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You know what's remarkable? That England looks in no way like Southern California.

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England & Great Britain California

What is a pirate's favorite state?
Arrrrkansas!

Did you know Arkansas is in the Bible?
Noah looked out the Ark and saw.

What did Tennessee?
Same thing Arkansas.

Tennessee Arkansas

They say money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to Arkansas - and that's pretty much the same thing.

All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in The Little Prince

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Children & Childhood Birthday Age

You're never too old to be young.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

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Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

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Youth Age Generations

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

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