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
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 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
