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Jackie Cooper

"To me, the series was the end of the actor, when the series ended."

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"To me, the series was the end of the actor, when the series ended."

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"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."
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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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"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."
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"But I want to do good work, after this series."
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"So I felt, well, I'll make the money and, with the money, do what I want to do."
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"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."
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"A nice, steady job I don't need that bad. I'm not that satisfied with it."
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"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."
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"A lot of people like to run in plays because it's a nice, steady job."
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"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."
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