53 Quotes by Jackie Cooper

There was nothing real about teenagers - nobody talked about them in those days, nobody did anything about them.

I'm very pleased with where we are right now. At the beginning of the season our goal was to make the playoffs and here we are.

I need a steady job like running in this new series, because we own the negative to every show that goes on the air, my partner and I.

I had directed a little in summer theater, and I liked it, and I started getting interested in directing, in live television.

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.

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

A nice, steady job I don't need that bad. I'm not that satisfied with it.

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.

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.