Quotes by Jackie Cooper - Page 1

If it's boring, then it's tiring.
Jackie Cooper / Actor
Boring
Ifs
Tire
Tiring
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But I want to do good work, after this series.
Jackie Cooper / Actor
Good Work
Series
Work Good Good Work
Work Good Want
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There was only so much television you could do.
Jackie Cooper / Actor
Style
Television
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From that, I became very anxious to produce something of my own.
Jackie Cooper / Actor
Anxious
Produce
Own Something My Own
My Own Own Something
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There was never any effort made out there to improve the artist.
Jackie Cooper / Actor
Artist
Effort
Made
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To me, the series was the end of the actor, when the series ended.
Jackie Cooper / Actor
Actors
Ends
Series
Ended
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A lot of people like to run in plays because it's a nice, steady job.
Jackie Cooper / Actor
Jobs
Running
Nice
Steady
Plays
Steady Job
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A nice, steady job I don't need that bad. I'm not that satisfied with it.
Jackie Cooper / Actor
Jobs
Needs
Nice
Satisfied
Steady
Steady Job
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Keep doing what you've been doing and you will keep getting what you've been getting!
Jackie Cooper / Actor
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So then you have to say to yourself: Do I want to be rich, or do I want to do good work?
Jackie Cooper / Actor
Good Work
Rich
Want
Work Good Yourself
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They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.
Jackie Cooper / Actor
Box Office
Office
Box
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They had to start shaving my chin when I was 12 years old because light started to pick it up.
Jackie Cooper / Actor
Shaving
Chin
Pick
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
Jackie Cooper / Actor
Boys
Mean
People
Watched
Living People Way
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I just knew how to do the one thing I did, and whether I did it well or not depended on who the director was.
Jackie Cooper / Actor
Directors
One Thing
Wells
Depended
The One Thing
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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 / Actor
Hair
Legs
Long
Pants
Photograph
Photography
Shaving
Beginning
Me Long Hair
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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 / Actor
Tracy
Day People Never
Background
Mr
Held
Originally
Spencer
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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 / Actor
Daddy
Father
Mayer
Remember
Mr
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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 / Actor
Crazy
Interviews
Too Much
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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 / Actor
Crew
Undone
Picture
Allowed
Cheap
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So if I keep making mistakes on Broadway or tape or film, producing, directing or acting, I can go along and do it - so long as I'm not investing too much capital in these things.
Jackie Cooper / Actor
Acting
Broadway
Investing
Long
Making Mistakes
Mistake
Tape
Mistakes
Capital
Directing
Producing
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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 / Actor
Box Office
Office
Ran
Box
Dropped
Gimmick
Studio
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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 / Actor
Artistic
Different
Effort
People
Business Money People
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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 / Actor
Dying
Good Work
Half
Mediocrity
Series
Sponsors
Work Hope Good
Demanding
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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 / Actor
Home
Morning
Broadway
Eight
Every Night
Night
Six
Morning Home Night
Pound
Studio
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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 / Actor
Acting
Creative
Together
Anything Else
Directing
Except
Producing
Putting
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Very often on some of this stuff when I'd have to go to work. I'd just give the script a cursory glance. I had no training, and I was a quick study, so nobody knew how involved or not involved I was. But I look at that stuff now and I can see I wasn't involved, and I wasn't very good.
Jackie Cooper / Actor
Giving
Looks
Training
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