Jackie Cooper Quotes

In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.

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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.

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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.

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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 studio and get home at 7: 30 or eight o'clock at night, or act over and over and over every night on Broadway, either.

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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 just dying to have right now, and the public, for some reason, is unconsciously demanding.

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They had to start shaving my chin when I was 12 years old because light started to pick it up.

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So then you have to say to yourself: Do I want to be rich, or do I want to do good work?

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