Jackie Cooper Quotes

Jackie Cooper — American Actor born on September 15, 1922, died on May 03, 2011

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 9, 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 remained the youngest Oscar nominee in any category, until he was surpassed by Justin Henry's nomination, at age 8, in the Supporting Actor category for Kramer vs. Kramer... (wikipedia)

If it's boring, then it's tiring.

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

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.

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

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.