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.

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.

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.

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.

There was only so much television you could do.

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

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.

But the working I would always want to do.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.