"So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder."

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"So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder."

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"What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories."

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"A lot of its readers are of an age where they forget to cancel."

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Explore more quotes by Jackie Cooper

"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."

Business

"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."

Office

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

Job

"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."

People

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

People

"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."

Beginning

"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."

Work

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

Work

"They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it."

Thought

"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."

Acting