53 Quotes by Jackie Cooper

If it's boring, then it's tiring.

I hope this series is good work, but it is in the half-hour medium, which is limited to a kind of mediocrity that sponsors are just dying to have right now, and the public, for some reason, is unconsciously demanding.

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.

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.

Very often on some of this stuff when I'd have to go to work. I'd just give the script a cursory glance. I had no training, and I was a quick study, so nobody knew how involved or not involved I was. But I look at that stuff now and I can see I wasn't involved, and I wasn't very good.

There was only so much television you could do.

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

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