All Jackie Cooper Quotes
- Keep doing what you've been doing and you will keep getting what you've been getting! Been
- A lot of people like to run in plays because it's a nice, steady job. Job
- A nice, steady job I don't need that bad. I'm not that satisfied with it. Bad
- 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… Act
- I remember Mr. Mayer very well. He sort of liked to be the father - no, he liked to be treated like you thought he… All
- If it's boring, then it's tiring. Boring
- 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… Demanding
- 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… Beginning
- 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… Crazy
- To me, the series was the end of the actor, when the series ended. Actor
- 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… Cursory
- There was only so much television you could do. Inspirational
- There was never any effort made out there to improve the artist. Any
- 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. Depended
- So then you have to say to yourself: Do I want to be rich, or do I want to do good work? Good
- 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… Acting
- So if I keep making mistakes on Broadway or tape or film, producing, directing or acting, I can go along and do it - so… Acting
- In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means. Beyond
- 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,… Artistic
- But the working I would always want to do. Always Want
- But I want to do good work, after this series. Good
- They had to start shaving my chin when I was 12 years old because light started to pick it up. Chin
- They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it. Box
- From that, I became very anxious to produce something of my own. Anxious
- So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap… Age