I looked it at like this way. To get folks to like you, as a screen player I mean, I figured you had to sort of be their ideal. I don't mean a handsome knight riding a white horse, but… — Gary Cooper Copy Share Image
This is a terrible place to spend your life in. Nobody in Hollywood is normal. Absolutely nobody. And they have such a vicious attitude… — Gary Cooper Copy Share Image
The only achievement I am really proud of is the friends I have made in this community. — Gary Cooper Copy Share Image
It’s literally true, as Shakespeare said--all the world’s a stage. It wasn’t that way when I first got into the movies in 1924, but… — Gary Cooper Copy Share Image
Having to work hard never had any real appeal for me, and that may have some connection with me being in the movies. — Gary Cooper Copy Share Image
In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl. — Gary Cooper Copy Share Image
Until I came along all the leading men were handsome, but luckily they wrote a lot of stories about the fellow next door. — Gary Cooper Copy Share Image
Looked like she was a cold dish with a man until you got her pants down, then she'd explode. — Gary Cooper Copy Share Image
There ain't never a horse that never been rode; there ain't never a rider that can't be thrown. — Gary Cooper Copy Share Image
People ask me how come you've been around so long. Well, it's through playing the part of Mr Average Joe American. — Gary Cooper Copy Share Image
I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper. — Gary Cooper Copy Share Image
