Jackie Cooper

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. ↗

— Jackie Cooper

#because #changed #day #gable #had

So I felt, well, I'll make the money and, with the money, do what I want to do. ↗

— Jackie Cooper

#i #make #money #want #well

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. ↗

— Jackie Cooper

#business #different #dupont #effort #eventually

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. ↗

— Jackie Cooper

#along #broadway #capital #directing #film

So then you have to say to yourself: Do I want to be rich, or do I want to do good work? ↗

— Jackie Cooper

#good work #i #rich #say #then

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. ↗

— Jackie Cooper

#allowed #away #because #cheap #crew

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. ↗

— Jackie Cooper

#box #box office #dropped #dry #gimmick

There was never any effort made out there to improve the artist. ↗

— Jackie Cooper

#artist #effort #improve #made #never

There was only so much television you could do. ↗

— Jackie Cooper

#much #only #television #you

They had to start shaving my chin when I was 12 years old because light started to pick it up. ↗

— Jackie Cooper

#chin #had #i #light #old