American - Actor | September 15, 1922 - May 3, 2011
They had to start shaving my chin when I was 12 years old because light started to pick it up.
Jackie Cooper
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There was never any effort made out there to improve the artist.
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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.
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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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They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.
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I just knew how to do the one thing I did, and whether I did it well or not depended on who the director was.
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To me, the series was the end of the actor, when the series ended.
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There was only so much television you could do.
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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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So I felt, well, I'll make the money and, with the money, do what I want to do.
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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.
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From that, I became very anxious to produce something of my own.
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