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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."

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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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"I'm enjoying it, but I still don't know why I'm hooked on acting."

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"My favorite way of getting out of doing chores is by acting like I'm asleep. But it never works."

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"I'm less needy about needing to express myself through acting. I have many different lives outside of this that are extremely fulfilling."

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"And then, I suppose, there's also a cinematic reality on top of that. Because it was extremely difficult to keep tabs on, it was quite confusing acting that."

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"There is no overacting, only untrue acting."

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"I like to use all of myself, and acting wasn't doing that."

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"While making Genevieve, I learned there could be a lot more to a film than just acting in it."

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"I went into acting because I had to make a good living. I had a child now and I had to support him any way I could... I wasn't happy, but I wasn't unhappy. I was just doing what I had to do to survive."

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"I was born with a need to be the center of attention, and, of course, you're the center of the world when you're acting."

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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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"They had to start shaving my chin when I was 12 years old because light started to pick it up."
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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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"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 I felt, well, I'll make the money and, with the money, do what I want to do."
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