Jackie Cooper

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

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.

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.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.

They said I couldn't play anything but an English boy. I knew I could. So I went to New York.