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… — Jackie Cooper Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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… — Jackie Cooper Copy Share Image
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… — Jackie Cooper Copy Share Image
A lot of people like to run in plays because it's a nice, steady job. — Jackie Cooper Copy Share Image
So then you have to say to yourself: Do I want to be rich, or do I want to do good work? — Jackie Cooper Copy Share Image
They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it. — Jackie Cooper Copy Share Image
Keep doing what you've been doing and you will keep getting what you've been getting! — Jackie Cooper Copy Share Image
So I felt, well, I'll make the money and, with the money, do what I want to do. — Jackie Cooper Copy Share Image
They had to start shaving my chin when I was 12 years old because light started to pick it up. — Jackie Cooper Copy Share Image
I remember Mr. Mayer very well. He sort of liked to be the father - no, he liked to be treated like you thought… — Jackie Cooper Copy Share Image
So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next… — Jackie Cooper Copy Share Image
