Jackie Cooper Quotes

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• Keep doing what you've been doing and you will keep getting what you've been getting!
• A lot of people like to run in plays because it's a nice, steady job.
• A nice, steady job I don't need that bad. I'm not that satisfied with it.
• 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 the…
• I remember Mr. Mayer very well. He sort of liked to be the father - no, he liked to be treated like you thought he…
• If it's boring, then it's tiring.
• 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…
• They kept me in short pants as long as they could, until they were shaving the hair on my legs because it was beginning to…
• 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 property…
• To me, the series was the end of the actor, when the series ended.
• 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…
• There was only so much television you could do.
• There was never any effort made out there to improve the artist.
• I just knew how to do the one thing I did, and whether I did it well or not depended on who the director was.
• So then you have to say to yourself: Do I want to be rich, or do I want to do good work?
• Well, they just don't know anything else except that one form of their business, acting, and they don't really want to learn any other part…
• So if I keep making mistakes on Broadway or tape or film, producing, directing or acting, I can go along and do it - so…
• In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
• 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,…
• But the working I would always want to do.

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