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.

- 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…

- Jackie Cooper

Very often on some of this stuff when I'd have to go to work. I'd just give the script a cursory glance. I had no training, and I was a quick study, …

- 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…

- Jackie Cooper

There was only so much television you could do.

- 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…

- Jackie Cooper

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 artis…

- Jackie Cooper

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

- Jackie Cooper

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

- Jackie Cooper