Top 26 Quotes by Jackie Cooper

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

But the working I would always want to do.

There was only so much television you could do.

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.

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

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.

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

A lot of people like to run in plays because it's a nice, steady job.

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.

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