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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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jackie-cooper/so-if-i-keep-making-mistakes-on-broadway-or-tape-or-film-producing/)

[Jackie Cooper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jackie-cooper/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/86b/jackie-cooper-22229_acting_so-if-i-keep-making-mistakes-on-broadway_2746329.jpg)

## More by 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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jackie-cooper/i-would-also-like-to-act-once-in-a-while-but-not-get-up-every-morning/)

[Jackie Cooper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jackie-cooper/)

> [To me, the series was the end of the actor, when the series ended.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jackie-cooper/to-me-the-series-was-the-end-of-the-actor-when-the-series-ended/)

[Jackie Cooper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jackie-cooper/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jackie-cooper/i-hope-this-series-is-good-work-but-it-is-in-the-half-hour-medium/)

[Jackie Cooper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jackie-cooper/)

> [A lot of people like to run in plays because it's a nice, steady job.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jackie-cooper/a-lot-of-people-like-to-run-in-plays-because-it-s-a-nice-steady-job/)

[Jackie Cooper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jackie-cooper/)

> [So then you have to say to yourself: Do I want to be rich, or do I want to do good work?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jackie-cooper/so-then-you-have-to-say-to-yourself-do-i-want-to-be-rich-or-do-i-want/)

[Jackie Cooper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jackie-cooper/)

> [They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jackie-cooper/they-thought-in-terms-of-whatever-you-had-that-started-you-at-the-box/)

[Jackie Cooper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jackie-cooper/)

> [Keep doing what you've been doing and you will keep getting what you've been getting!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jackie-cooper/keep-doing-what-you-ve-been-doing-and-you-will-keep-getting-what-you/)

[Jackie Cooper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jackie-cooper/)

> [So I felt, well, I'll make the money and, with the money, do what I want to do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jackie-cooper/so-i-felt-well-i-ll-make-the-money-and-with-the-money-do-what-i-want/)

[Jackie Cooper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jackie-cooper/)

> [But the working I would always want to do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jackie-cooper/but-the-working-i-would-always-want-to-do/)

[Jackie Cooper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jackie-cooper/)

> [They had to start shaving my chin when I was 12 years old because light started to pick it up.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jackie-cooper/they-had-to-start-shaving-my-chin-when-i-was-12-years-old-because/)

[Jackie Cooper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jackie-cooper/i-remember-mr-mayer-very-well-he-sort-of-liked-to-be-the-father-no-he/)

[Jackie Cooper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jackie-cooper/so-whatever-i-might-have-started-to-learn-at-that-age-was-all-undone/)

[Jackie Cooper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jackie-cooper/)

> [From that, I became very anxious to produce something of my own.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jackie-cooper/from-that-i-became-very-anxious-to-produce-something-of-my-own/)

[Jackie Cooper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jackie-cooper/)

> [I just knew how to do the one thing I did, and whether I did it well or not depended on who the director…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jackie-cooper/i-just-knew-how-to-do-the-one-thing-i-did-and-whether-i-did-it-well/)

[Jackie Cooper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jackie-cooper/i-never-say-too-much-about-that-in-public-interviews-because-it/)

[Jackie Cooper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jackie-cooper/)

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