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Jackie Cooper Quotes

Jackie Cooper quotes

American Actor September 15, 1922 – May 3, 2011

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I hope this series is good work, but it is in the half-hour medium, which is limited to a kind of mediocrity that sponsors are just dying to have right now, and the public, for some reason, is unconsciously demanding. Jackie Cooper
I would also like to act, once in a while, but not get up every morning at 5:30 or six o'clock and pound into the studio and get home at 7:30 or eight o'clock at night, or act over and over and over every night on Broadway, either. Jackie Cooper
Jackie Cooper quote: "So then you have to say to yourself: Do I want to be rich, or..."
So then you have to say to yourself: Do I want to be rich, or do I want to do good work? Jackie Cooper
Jackie Cooper quote: "But I want to do good work, after this series."
But I want to do good work, after this series. Jackie Cooper
People like Spencer Tracy held up because they had the background originally, but to this day they never have changed Mr. Gable's role, or most of them. Jackie Cooper
They kept me in short pants as long as they could, until they were shaving the hair on my legs because it was beginning to photograph. Jackie Cooper
So I'm in that half-hour business where the most money is, so that eventually I feel like the people that put on the Dupont show, like maybe my artistic effort is going to be a little different. Jackie Cooper
Jackie Cooper quote: "A lot of people like to run in plays because it's a nice,..."
A lot of people like to run in plays because it's a nice, steady job. Jackie Cooper
The studio didn't ask them to learn their trade, they just worked them, and when that personality or that gimmick or whatever they had ran dry at the box office, they were dropped and out. Jackie Cooper
Well, they just don't know anything else except that one form of their business, acting, and they don't really want to learn any other part of it, or they would. Directing and producing and putting a show together is very creative, for me. Jackie Cooper
So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder. Jackie Cooper
Jackie Cooper quote: "A nice, steady job I don't need that bad. I'm not that..."
A nice, steady job I don't need that bad. I'm not that satisfied with it. Jackie Cooper
I remember Mr. Mayer very well. He sort of liked to be the father - no, he liked to be treated like you thought he was Daddy, but he didn't treat you like Daddy at all. Jackie Cooper
I never say too much about that in public interviews, because it disappoints the public to tell them you're not that crazy about a property you did that possibly they liked. Jackie Cooper
Jackie Cooper quote: "In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I..."
In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means. Jackie Cooper

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