Ladd Quotes

If I can help get anybody through puberty, I say, 'Good!' ~ Cheryl Ladd

I'm working myself to death. ~ Alan Ladd

The thing is, I fell in love with Luke, not Cary. Fell for the sheen and the sweat, the adrenalin of the hunt. Faltered, reeled, collapsed. There was no falling with Cary. Loving him was gradual and logical, inevitable as the path of a glacier. But Luke was a thunderclap, appearing out of a clear blue sky, soaking me to my skin, then moving on leaving everything looking different. And post-Luke nothing was the same. ~ Kylie Ladd

My head rested on his shoulder, my heart rested entirely in his hands And in a whisper, my words escaped: "I love you." He probably hadn't heard them. He was too focused on the movie. But he heard me; I could tell. His arms enveloped me even further; his embrace tightened. He breathed in and sighed, and his hand played with my hair. "Good," he said softly, and his gentle lips found mine. ~ Ree Drummond

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

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. ~ Alan Ladd

The realization was becoming clearer: How could she expect others to trust her with the intricacies of their lives if she was not not willing to reveal hers? ~ Sarah E. Ladd

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

As against solipsism it is to be said, in the first place, that it is psychologically impossible to believe, and is rejected in fact even by those who mean to accept it. I once received a letter from an eminent logician, Mrs. Christine Ladd-Franklin, saying that she was a solipsist, and was surprised that there were no others. Coming from a logician and a solipsist, her surprise surprised me. ~ Bertrand Russell

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

Remember that a fresh breath of life follows every sigh of exasperation. Breathe in, breathe out, and ENJOY every moment. It is how everything begins and ends. - Charmainism ~ Charmaine Smith Ladd

Our children were trained to look after each other. ~ Alan Ladd

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

My personality just steps away, and I'm in direct connection when I'm on stage. ~ Diane Ladd

Jesus' words are inseparable from his person. He himself is the message he proclaims. ~ George Eldon Ladd

I literally felt gutted, as if someone had hollowed me out, removed my core. Patients in the final stage of dementia revert to an almost neonatal state, their brains so atrophied they can only breathe and digest, suck and pout. That was how I felt. I continued to function, but only at the most basic level, my existence little more than a collection of primitive reflexes. ~ Kylie Ladd

We choose to live life to the fullest because it is in our best interest to do so. - Charmainism ~ Charmaine Smith Ladd

Alan Ladd was a marvelous person in his simplicity. In so many ways we were kindred spirits. We both were professionally conceived through Hollywood's search for box office and the types to insure the box office. And we were both little people. Alan wasn't as short as most people believe. It was true that in certain films Alan would climb a small platform or the girl worked in a slit trench. We had no such problems together. ~ Veronica Lake

Time scoots along pretty fast when you grow up. ~ Alan Ladd

As you get older, you develop your style. For me, the simpler, the better. ~ Cheryl Ladd

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

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

I'm not proud of any of this, truly I'm not. Looking back I can't believe how I acted, how each deceit flowed so seamlessly from another. My only excuse is that I was addicted, and like any addict all I could think about was my next hit. Hurting Cary didn't seem of any consequence, neglecting Sarah or my work was unimportant. All that mattered was Luke and the singing in my veins whenever we were together. ~ Kylie Ladd

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

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

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

The life and fellowship of the church is to be a foretaste of life in the Kingdom of God. ~ George Eldon Ladd

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

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

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

I drew a line for myself. I never dated anyone that could hire me when I was first in Hollywood, and I think that kept me focused on what I was there to do and how I wanted to go about it. I took it a step at a time. ~ Cheryl Ladd

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

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

I'm terribly sad about Farrah's passing. She was incredibly brave, and God will be welcoming her with open arms. ~ Cheryl Ladd

That's the thing about falling. It doesn't go on indefinitely, and it rarely ends well . . . plunge, plummet, pain. Even if you get straight back up, even when you regain your footing, after the fall nothing is ever quite the same. ~ Kylie Ladd

I think that discipline is so much of an important part of being a parent. Because it's very, very important to teach your children to take responsibility for their actions. ~ Cheryl Ladd

Maybe a better illustration would be a migraine. One moment you're well, the next you're in so much pain you can't open your eyes. Everything is changed. Nothing exists except the throb and fret between your temples, though underneath it all you're still perfectly healthy. ~ Kylie Ladd

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

Nothing mattered, except whether the transplant took. God, he wanted it to work. He wanted to heal Skye, make her well again, if not with his kidney, then from the very force of his longing. Tears slipped out from beneath his eyelids and ran down his cheeks. Even if he never saw her again he couldn't bear the thought of her dying. ~ Kylie Ladd

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

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

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

The big thrillers may make people aware of the violence in the society, and I guess that serves a purpose. ~ Diane Ladd

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

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

I had learnt from my work: that all pain is erased in the passage of time. Not just by, but in. In ten decades hence it would be as if nothing had ever happened. There would be no relics, no scars. No jug to piece together, no bone fragments to date. Emotions fade and leave no trace. Only the inanimate remains. ~ Kylie Ladd

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

A fall is a surrender, you cant help it, you didn't plan it. Maybe you could have been more careful, but its too late for that now- you might as well enjoy the swoop and the speed, the unnerving sensation of having your feet higher then your head. ~ Kylie Ladd

Two things I take very seriously in life. My golf game and my relationship with God. Neither one is simple. ~ Cheryl Ladd

I wanted to be a district attorney and solve hidden problems or maybe even be a leper-colony missionary and save people. ~ Diane Ladd

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

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

I lost many a role to actresses who couldn't do the job one-hundredth as good as I could. ~ Diane Ladd

Many years ago, I used to say, 'I haven't lived long enough to be great.' Now I don't say that. ~ Diane Ladd

Nobody just said, 'Here, be a star!' I've joked many times that I was a seven-year overnight success. ~ Cheryl Ladd

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

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

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

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

I lost so many blessings while confined in the prison of my fear. ~ Sarah E. Ladd

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

The presence of the messianic salvation is also seen in Jesus' miracles of healing, for which the Greek word meaning "to save" is used. The presence of the Kingdom of God in Jesus meant deliverance from hemorrhage (Mk 5:34), blindness (Mk 10:52), demon possession (Lk 8:36), and even death itself (Mk 5:23). Jesus claimed that these deliverances were evidences of the presence of the messianic salvation (Mt 11:4-5). They were pledges of the life of the eschatological Kingdom that will finally mean immortality for the body. The Kingdom of God is concerned not only with people's souls but with the salvation of the whole person. ~ George Eldon Ladd

Shake hands with yourself. Forgive yourself and you can learn to love yourself and others in the manner that brings you the greatest fulfillment of all. With love, all things are truly possible. - Charmainism ~ Charmaine Smith Ladd

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

Remember, with each dawn seek guidance, and with each night give gratitude. ~ Sarah E. Ladd

Have a little faith, kick a little dirt. ~ Diane Ladd

A smile is one of the best ways we can express the joy God has placed within us. ~ Karol Ladd

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

I laugh a lot and count my blessings. ~ Cheryl Ladd

Change the way you think and you will change the way you feel. ~ Charmaine Smith Ladd

Jesus is now the Lord; He is enthroned at the right hand of God; He is reigning in His kingdom. But this is a Lordship and a kingly reign which is known only to believers. It must be confessed by faith. His Second Coming will mean nothing less than the Lordship which is His now will be visible to all the world. When we pray, 'Thy kingdom come,' this is what we are praying for: the effectual and universal rule of Christ in all the world, not only over believers. ~ George Eldon Ladd

A high place of honor, although doubtless one to be obtained only after enduring the pangs of a prolonged crucifixion, awaits that philosophical biologist, or that philosopher sufficiently acquainted with scientific biology, who subjects the modern doctrine of evolution to a thoroughly critical analysis, with a view to detect and to estimate its metaphysical assumptions. ~ George Trumbull Ladd

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

Chemistry is an overused word. I prefer 'fit', that indefinable sensation when a man takes your arm as you move through a door, or leans into you to light your cigarette. (I gave up smoking for Cary and sometimes I still miss it.) Fit is an understanding between bodies: that you've been designed the same way, that you speak each other's language, and fluently. It's all about physical compatibility and has nothing to do with whether you'll last or even have anything to talk about afterwards; fit is no relation to the brain, and only a distant cousin of the heart. ~ Kylie Ladd

Skye shook her head at Jess, who kept nudging the ball towards her. She was too tired to keep throwing. She needed a rest. Pregnancy, she'd discovered, felt a lot like grief. There was the weight and the heft of it, the way it fatigued you; there was the inability to think clearly or do very much at all. A house opposite the park still had its Christmas decorations up, she noticed, though it was almost the end of January. Skye knew how its owners must feel. She was out of sync too: married and pregnant to one man, but thinking of another. Everything jarred; nothing was the way it was supposed to be. ~ Kylie Ladd

There's an old joke about a man who buys a cookbook for his wife and a negligee for his mistress. Somehow, though, the two parcels get mixed up and he fears that all will be lost. But on the contrary both women are delighted: the wife thrilled to be viewed in a sexual manner after years of domestic tedium, the mistress overjoyed that her lover considers her as more than just a body. I imagined the scenario as I trudged my way through Myer and David Jones. Should I look for lingerie for Cress, reassure her that despite all the hiccups of the past few months I still loved and wanted her? I thought I did, but a leopard-print G-string didn't seem the right way to express that. ~ Kylie Ladd

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

If I can help one person in this world, then it's enough, and I've done my job. ~ Diane Ladd

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

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

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

Fear is a bitter, vile enemy - it will rob you today's joys and steal your strength to fight for your purpose. Faith is why I don't fear tomorrow or the next day. ~ Sarah E. Ladd

I was a dummy in school. ~ Alan Ladd

Maybe it was because the friendship had been forced on us, or because, with her careful grooming and precise sentences, Joan always made me feel messy. ~ Kylie Ladd

Tired, yes, but it was more than that. Watching everything unfold had lurched me from anger to disgust and finally sorrow, had reminded me that love is fleeting and precious and should never be taken for granted. All of a sudden I felt the need to seize it with both hands, to assure myself that the same pain wouldn't be mine. ~ Kylie Ladd

I always wanted to be tall, but I'm not, OK? ~ Cheryl Ladd

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

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

You have to make peace with life. ~ Cheryl Ladd

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

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

At first I enjoyed it. A fall is a surrender; you can't help it, you didn't plan it. Maybe you could have been more careful, but it's too late for that now - you might as well enjoy the swoop and the speed, the unnerving sensation of having your feet higher than your head. ~ Kylie Ladd

If you try to talk about yourself honestly when you're an actor, you come off as stuck on yourself. ~ Diane Ladd

Her soul felt at rest, for now she knew the true power of love, the unbending strength of loyalty, and the eternal beauty of forgiveness. (page 338) ~ Sarah E. Ladd

My mother could do absolutely anything. She was like Martha Stewart before such a thing existed. ~ Cheryl Ladd

Golf has been such a gift in my life, and I've enjoyed it so much and enjoyed lots of wonderful times on the golf course with my husband first, and then I got to play in all these celebrity tournaments. I'm often the only female celebrity in the tournament, hence the term 'Token Chick.' So it's been such a great, great gift in my life. ~ Cheryl Ladd

Positive energy is a wonderful thing. It's your energy not working against you. The choice is yours. - Charmainism ~ Charmaine Smith Ladd

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

Andy: Most of the things I did with her partly in mind. And if I said or did an inauthentic thing, I could almost hear her groaning over my shoulder. But now she's gone and I really don't know how I'll get along without her.
Melissa: (Looking at him for the first time.) You'll survive, Andy...
Andy: I have a wonderful wife, fine children, and a place in the world I feel proud of, but the death of Melissa suddenly leaves a huge gap in my life...
Melissa: Oh now, Andy...
Andy: The thought of never again being able to write to her, to connect to her, to get some signal back from her, fills me with an emptiness which is hard to describe.
Melissa: Now Andy, stop...
Andy: I don't think there are many men in this world who have had the benefit of such a friendship with such a woman. But it was more than friendship, too. I know now that I loved her. I loved her even from the day I met her, when she walked into second grade, looking like the lost princess of Oz.
Melissa: Oh, Andy, PLEASE. I can't bear it.
Andy: I don't think I've ever loved anyone the way I loved her, and I know I never will again. She was at the heart of my life, and already I miss her desperately. I just wanted to say this to you and to her. Sincerely, Andy Ladd.
Melissa: Thank you, Andy. ~ A.R. Gurney

God had not answered her mother's prayers and she doubted He would answer hers. ~ Sarah E. Ladd