Jackie Cooper Quotes

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

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

"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."
-Jackie Cooper

"Well, they just don't know anything else except that one form of their business, acting, and they don't really want to learn any other part of it, or they would. Directing and producing and putting a show together is very creative, for me."
-Jackie Cooper

"But the working I would always want to do."
-Jackie Cooper

"For the child actor, it was difficult."
-Jackie Cooper

"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."
-Jackie Cooper

"If it's boring, then it's tiring."
-Jackie Cooper