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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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"You know I am an actor, and I have medals for diction."

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"You grow up in a Sicilian household, becoming an actor is not a big leap."

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"I mean, you know, actors lives - you're forgotten. Look at Barrymore, and look at all the great actors. They're forgotten after awhile."

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"I pay attention to the actors and stuff, but not even that much. I don't pay attention to who's writing."

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"I've been just like any other working actor, out there looking for stuff."

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"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."
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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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"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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"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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"So then you have to say to yourself: Do I want to be rich, or do I want to do good work?"
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"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."
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"I remember Mr. Mayer very well. He sort of liked to be the father - no, he liked to be treated like you thought he was Daddy, but he didn't treat you like Daddy at all."
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