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Jackie Cooper

"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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"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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Asa Don Brown

"To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible."

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Asa Don Brown

"I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me."

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Asa Don Brown

"More and more couples are having this negotiation or discussion, but I'm still amazed at the number who aren't and where the cultural norm sort of kicks in and they just assume that mom's got to be the one who stays home, not dad."

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Asa Don Brown

"It now costs more to amuse a child than it once did to educate his father."

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Asa Don Brown

"And my dad wanted me to play the trumpet because that's what he liked. His idol was Louis Armstrong. My dad thought my teeth came together in a way that was perfect for playing the trumpet."

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Asa Don Brown

"Whenever I fail as a father or husband... a toy and a diamond always works."

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Asa Don Brown

"My father wasn't a very good lawyer. He thought the law was sacred and something that was meant to help people. He didn't charge people like he should have... which is why I was allowed to play bars and strip joints when I was 14."

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Asa Don Brown

"There were 15 people in the village, including five of us. If my father arrested somebody in the winter, he'd have to wait until the thaw to turn him in."

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Asa Don Brown

"There will always be a father."

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Asa Don Brown

"My earliest acting memory is making up a play for my mom and dad called The Lonesome Baby. I have no idea what The Lonesome Baby was about. I just remember the title. But I'm sure it was an epic."

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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."

Property

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

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Jackie Cooper
"There was only so much television you could do."

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Jackie Cooper
"I would also like to act, once in a while, but not get up every morning at 5:30 or six o'clock and pound into the studio and get home at 7:30 or eight o'clock at night, or act over and over and over every night on Broadway, either."

Home

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Jackie Cooper
"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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Jackie Cooper
"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."

Father

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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."

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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."

Age

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Jackie Cooper
"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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Jackie Cooper
"In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means."

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