53 Quotes by Jackie Cooper

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

I got schooled over at NBC on a soap opera, and I had a Sunday-afternoon show, an hour show sponsored by the Ford Foundation, a documentary, half live with film integration. I directed that.

But the working I would always want to do.

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

Keep 'em clear of things like leaves and tree branches and stuff. They run hot.

I was a terrible little do-gooder, saccharine, most unreal kind of a character - except once in a while a director or script or combination of the two came along where I began to look like something else and sound like something else.

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.

I was thrilled, naturally, at that age, if somebody wanted me to look and act a couple of years older than I was.

I would love to have a good director working with me and going through the early stages of putting a play together with me.