Jackie John Cooper Jr. Quotes

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

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

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• 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 photograph.

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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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• There was only so much television you could do.

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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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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• 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.

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

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• People like Spencer Tracy held up because they had the background originally, but to this day they never have changed Mr. Gable’s role, or most of them.

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

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• If it’s boring, then it’s tiring.

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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 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.

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• 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 you did that possibly they liked.

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• 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.

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Jackie John Cooper Jr. (26)

Birth:	15th September, 1922
Death:	3rd May, 2011
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Television Director

About

Jackie John Cooper Jr. was born in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an American actor and television director. He was the first child actor to receive an Academy Award nomination(film- Skippy). His role in several films include: The Champ, When a Feller Needs a Friend, The Bowery, Treasure Island, Dinky, White Banners, Streets of New York, Life with Henry, Glamour Boy, Everything's Ducky, The Love Machine, and Surrender. His role in TV film include: Calhoun: County Agent, The Astronaut, and The Day the Earth Moved. He directed several TV films include: Having Babies III, Perfect Gentlemen, Rainbow, White Mama, Leave 'em Laughing, and The Night They Saved Christmas.

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