Jackie Cooper
Jackie Cooper
John Cooper, Jr., known as Jackie Cooper, was an American actor, television director, producer and executive. He was a child actor who managed to make the transition to an adult career. Cooper was the first child actor to receive an Academy Award nomination. At age nine, he was also the youngest performer to have been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role—an honor that he received for the film Skippy. For nearly 50 years, Cooper...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth15 September 1922
CityLos Angeles, CA
CountryUnited States of America
Also, I was very excited about somebody considering I had a talent they could develop a little bit, and very anxious to please.
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.
Keep doing what you've been doing and you will keep getting what you've been getting!
In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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.
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.
So then you have to say to yourself: Do I want to be rich, or do I want to do good work?
There was never any effort made out there to improve the artist.
To me, the series was the end of the actor, when the series ended.
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.
If it's boring, then it's tiring.
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.
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.
A nice, steady job I don't need that bad. I'm not that satisfied with it.