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 much capital in these things.”

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

“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.”

“To me, the series was the end of the actor, when the series ended.”

“But the working I would always want to do.”

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