top of page
Quote_1.png
Jackie Cooper

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

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

Exlpore more Actor quotes

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"Once you've gotten the job, there's nothing to it. If you're an actor, you're an actor. Doing it is not the hard part. The hard part is getting to do it."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"It's very difficult for me to speak about being an actor."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"I want to keep doing different things. I'd like to do a more personal, dramatic movie next, I think. But as long as it's about characters and good writing and good parts for actors, that's what's important."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"I view the whole thing as a collaboration. As an actor, I always found that to be the most freeing thing, when the director would collaborate with you, so that together you'd come up with something exponentially better."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"If you're going to be that kind of actor and go way out there, it's really important to take care of yourself and have a safe place, whatever that is."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"A reporter discovers, in the course of many years of interviewing celebrities, that most actors are more attractive behind a spotlight than over a spot of tea."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"But I would like to think that it's the actor that makes the difference in these cases. Not the director, not the guy that wrote the book, not the guy that adapted it for the screen, but the actor."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"You can't get an actor to do something that is beyond his range, so you have to be aware of the range of the actor and, if necessary, alter the part to suit the actor."

Explore more quotes by Jackie Cooper

Quote_1.png
Jackie Cooper
"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."
Quote_1.png
Jackie Cooper
"They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it."
Quote_1.png
Jackie Cooper
"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."
Quote_1.png
Jackie Cooper
"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."
Quote_1.png
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."
Quote_1.png
Jackie Cooper
"There was never any effort made out there to improve the artist."
Quote_1.png
Jackie Cooper
"A lot of people like to run in plays because it's a nice, steady job."
Quote_1.png
Jackie Cooper
"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."
Quote_1.png
Jackie Cooper
"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."
Quote_1.png
Jackie Cooper
"But the working I would always want to do."
bottom of page