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 Copy Share Image
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 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
I just knew how to do the one thing I did, and whether I did it well or not depended on who the director… — Jackie Cooper Copy Share Image
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… — Jackie Cooper Copy Share Image
