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Quotes By Jackie Cooper

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 of it, or they would. Directing and producing and putting a show together is very creative, for me.

Jackie Cooper
BusinessLearn Together

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
BusinessMoneyMaybe

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 picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.

Jackie Cooper
AgeLearn Whatever

The studio didn’t ask them to learn their trade, they just worked them, and when that personality or that gimmick or whatever they had ran dry at the box office, they were dropped and out.

Jackie Cooper
Ask Learn Whatever

There was only so much television you could do.

Jackie Cooper
Television

They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.

Jackie Cooper
Office Terms Whatever

I remember Mr. Mayer very well. He sort of liked to be the father – no, he liked to be treated like you thought he was Daddy, but he didn’t treat you like Daddy at all.

Jackie Cooper
Father Remember Sort

But the working I would always want to do.

Jackie Cooper

So I felt, well, I’ll make the money and, with the money, do what I want to do.

Jackie Cooper
MoneyFelt

There was never any effort made out there to improve the artist.

Jackie Cooper
Artist Effort Improve

But I want to do good work, after this series.

Jackie Cooper
GoodWorkSeries

From that, I became very anxious to produce something of my own.

Jackie Cooper
Anxious Became Produce

To me, the series was the end of the actor, when the series ended.

Jackie Cooper
Ended Series

A nice, steady job I don’t need that bad. I’m not that satisfied with it.

Jackie Cooper
Nice Satisfied Steady

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
Acting Along Mistakes
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