I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
Jackie Collins
Related I write so that people will read what I write. I don't want to write a book that a thousand peop... ANN HOOD I thought, well I can do that. I couldn't be bothered writing a book review, because I'd hav... EDDIE CAMPBELL I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences. LARRY HAGMAN I love to write a book out of questions; in fact, I think it's the only way my writing can opera... KATE GRENVILLE What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the... HARLAN COBEN I like the quiet it takes to pursue an idea the way I pursued 'Hamilton,' but I couldn't... LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA Never think you can't do something. I definitely never thought I could write a book, and even af... CONNOR FRANTA When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write. NORMAN MAILER Sarah Palin - now don't laugh - is writing a book. Not just reading a book, writing a book. Actu... CHRIS MATTHEWS After being rejected for years, I found a publisher for 'Keeper,' and it won prizes, and the... MAL PEET Business book writing for me is when some set of ideas gets stuck in my mind, I write a book about i... TOM PETERS When I write, I have a sort of secret kinship of readers in all countries who don't know each ot... TEJU COLE With each book, in each place, I have to keep an ongoing map as I write because otherwise I don'... TAMORA PIERCE My main piece of advice would be don't worry about being published - just write a really good bo... DAVID LEVITHAN I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reaso... PATRICK DUFFY I just wrote a book, but don't go out and buy it yet, because I don't think it's finishe... LAWRENCE WELK Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't ... HILARY MANTEL I don't want to ever write a book that seems like it's pandering to younger people or talkin... RANSOM RIGGS I don't know where I got the idea for 'The Great Thumbprint Drawing Book'; I just told m... ED EMBERLEY One of the reasons why I don't write the same kind of book again and again is that I get bored v... TIBOR FISCHER Titles are very hard. Sometimes a title comes before I start to write the book, but often I finish t... EVE BUNTING I didn't want to write a 'this is how it is' Iraq book, because the Iraq War is an inten... PHIL KLAY It's funny, I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just... DAN BROWN For years I've wanted to write about the Australian countryside, but, like most Australians, I... KATE GRENVILLE Winning the Pulitzer is wonderful and it's an honor and I feel so humbled and so grateful, but I... JHUMPA LAHIRI You should not do an autobiography if you want to tell the truth. There are a lot of things I know a... ABRAHAM A. RIBICOFF The first book really was kind of an entertaining textbook for the homemaker. I couldn't find a ... MARTHA STEWART I had written a book. For various reasons, the publishing industry had decided that my book was goin... AKHIL SHARMA I wrote this book, '2030,' and I was careful in the book not to overdo the future because I ... ALBERT BROOKS I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book... WARREN G. HARDING I don't sit here and dream because I don't care about the future. I wouldn't take nothin... BROWNIE MCGHEE I once tried to write a novel about revenge. It's the only book I didn't finish. I couldn... MAEVE BINCHY I tend to write things and don't go the next step and try to get it published. I don't want ... ROBERT HUNTER Here's something I probably shouldn't be saying: I never listen to my soundtrack albums beca... HANS ZIMMER I don't know if I can prepare for what's to come because I don't know what will. DAISY RIDLEY I don't read the magazines that make things up about people. I know what the truth is. I don'... ASHTON KUTCHER People think children's books are about teddy bears and little flowers. I realize people sometim... PETER SIS One thing I don't want to feel is marketplace pressure, so I'm really glad I enjoy teaching ... AIMEE BENDER What about the hero of The House on the Strand? What did it mean when he dropped the telephone at th... DAPHNE DU MAURIER I've never gone back to the stacks after my book's expiration at the front of the store. Not... KAUI HART HEMMINGS I don't discriminate against sushi. It's all good in my book. BILLY HORSCHEL I know what I want to achieve in each book and the major points, but I don't plan right down to ... SAMANTHA SHANNON I don't write for an auditorium full of people. I don't write for the microphone; I write fo... BILLY COLLINS I write what I don't know. It's way more interesting. PATRICK ROTHFUSS I finished 'America America,' and I knew I had to write another book, not just for personal ... ETHAN CANIN I know I'm not a wordsmith. And I don't write poetry. Sometimes I think I should, because it... CANDACE BUSHNELL As a pastor and as a dad, I want my son to know I tell the truth. He can read the book. He knows if ... TODD BURPO I'd probably play games obsessively if I didn't write, although I admit I don't read nov... KAREN TRAVISS My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books w... TAO LIN I don't want to think that anything is off limits for me to write about, but I also don't wa... J. D. SOUTHER I cannot just write a frivolous book, a la-di-da book. Everything isn't la-di-da. There is somet... SHARON CREECH I never write a book unless I can't help it. Something has to bother me, like a mosquito, until ... GREGORY MAGUIRE You’re too much”, he said. “You talk too much, love too much, feel too much. And I don’t kno... A BOOK I'LL NEVER WRITE The expectation was that 'True Confessions' would be my first published book, but that didn&... RACHEL GIBSON What many people don't know about 'Peter Pan' is that it's a very violent book and H... EOIN COLFER I don't think I can write a book as nihilistic as some of my early ones. They're so bleak. I... DANIEL WOODRELL It's often wrong to write for specific actors because one ends up using what is least interestin... CLAUDE CHABROL I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just write the book ... DAN BROWN When I really want to learn about something, I write a book on it. Then the real research begins, as... JOSEPH CHILTON PEARCE Usually a feeling of disappointment follows the book, because what I hoped to write is not what I ac... ANITA DESAI After I wrote my memoir, 'A Long Way Gone,' I was a bit exhausted. I didn't want to writ... ISHMAEL BEAH When you pick up a book, everyone knows it's imaginary. You don't have to pretend it's n... PAUL AUSTER I don't mind finding these ugly sides to my personality and exaggerating them because that's... MARIA SEMPLE I have a number of friends that try to live off their writing, and there's way more pressure for... JOE MENO I generally don't walk out of films. If I start a book, and I don't love it by page 100, I w... DAVID DOBKIN With a book called 'Keeping Score,' I really did want to write a book about the Korean War, ... LINDA SUE PARK I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents. SUZANNE COLLINS I don't care much for equations myself. This is partly because it is difficult for me to write t... STEPHEN HAWKING It's not at all uncommon for a writer to get a ton of publicity for one book and then not get as... JEFF ABBOTT That's why I haven't been so anxious. But now, lots of people write and say, 'I want to ... ORNETTE COLEMAN I don't want to write formula. I don't want to crank these books out like sausages. Every bo... SUE GRAFTON I have to write what I can write, and writing the text of a picture book is like walking a tightrope... PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I don't think anything I've written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it t... E. L. DOCTOROW Before you worry about what genre it is, about whether it's a loop or a drum, it's about wha... BETH ORTON What I like to write about is stuff I know. I don't think I could write a novel. I don't thi... CAROL BURNETT I reread Mesrine's book every year because the way the story is told is fascinating. Today, we d... THOMAS LANGMANN I'm always depressed when a book ends, because those are my friends for however long the book ta... SEANAN MCGUIRE I don't know if I officially proofread my father's book, but I read it. I did get some conce... NOAM CHOMSKY I've made up little mantras for myself, catchphrases from a screenwriting book that doesn't ... TAYLOR SHERIDAN Many writers can't make a living. So to be able to teach how to write is valuable to them. But I... CHINUA ACHEBE I always swore I would never write a book. But I read Clare Balding's and it was really interest... JENNIFER SAUNDERS I don't know about other writers, but for myself, to write I must be relatively quiet - it's... RAY CHARLES One day I was talking about what I was going to do next, and just found myself announcing it: 'I... JOHN BURNSIDE Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or... YANN MARTEL After 'Lindbergh,' my publisher asked whom I wanted to write about next. I said, 'There&... A. SCOTT BERG Writing is a solitary experience. I'm extremely superstitious. If I talk about the book or name ... PAULO COELHO I'm a big eater. I mean, a lot of my stand-up is about food, and you write about what you know, ... JIM GAFFIGAN I have a saying. 'Never judge a book by its cover'. I say that because I don't even know... OZZY OSBOURNE I can't read, I don't know how to write, my whole life has been one big fight. ALBERT KING I was twenty-seven when I began to write seriously, and after two years of rejections, my first book... JUDY BLUME My favorite book is anything by Kurt Vonnegut - he's my literary hero. I got to meet him several... STEVEN WRIGHT As for my own music, I've never written a book about it. I'm not pedagogical... When I write... SAMUEL BARBER I think the next thing I publish will be for children, but I don't really want to be held to tha... J. K. ROWLING I write as if I'm someone reading the book - often people ask if I write one strand first and th... RUTH WARE I don't know if any single book made me want to write. C.S. Lewis was the first writer to make m... NEIL GAIMAN I'm never going to write a book like Anthony Sher did, you know, 'The Broadcaster Prepares.&... TERRY WOGAN What I think is interesting is that the more you do, you have to invent a book of rules of what you ... ADRIAN LYNE You don't know when you are immersed in a book what the reaction to it will be, but I feel great... KIM EDWARDS Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person ... ALICE WALKER I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare, but I can write a book by me WALTER RALEIGH SR.
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Who is ready to settle for five minutes when three hours does nicely? JACKIE COLLINS I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much m... JACKIE COLLINS People are intrigued by fame, power and wealth and I think Hollywood is the only place where you get... JACKIE COLLINS Agents are essential, because publishers will not read unsolicited manuscripts. JACKIE COLLINS I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is... JACKIE COLLINS Authors change publishers because it's like being married for a long time and suddenly you want ... JACKIE COLLINS Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else wo... JACKIE COLLINS Brittany Murphy... who knows if she's going to be around. Kirsten Dunst, I think she's reall... JACKIE COLLINS The husbands, who sometimes have another family who's grown, are going, Now I can spend time wit... JACKIE COLLINS I have written 20 books, and each one is like having a baby. Writing is not easy; some people want t... JACKIE COLLINS Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you k... JACKIE COLLINS I really fall in love with my characters, even the bad ones. I love getting together with them. They... JACKIE COLLINS I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then... JACKIE COLLINS My philosophy is, unless you're sick and need help, why bother? JACKIE COLLINS I don't believe in writing anything that I don't know about or haven't researched about ... JACKIE COLLINS I have visited Australia several times, and I always try to make a point of going to Melbourne becau... JACKIE COLLINS Do not copy my style! The first rule of writing is write about what you know, not what you think you... JACKIE COLLINS I write about the American dream: if you set your mind to do something, you can do it. My fans know ... JACKIE COLLINS If you want to achieve your dreams, you must follow them, and the best way to follow them is not to ... JACKIE COLLINS If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write! JACKIE COLLINS The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them. JACKIE COLLINS My weakness is wearing too much leopard print. JACKIE COLLINS I know that I am very popular in Holland, in fact I have visited Amsterdam several times to publiciz... JACKIE COLLINS Falling in love is like getting hit by a truck and yet not being mortally wounded. just sick to your... JACKIE COLLINS I think I'm a born storyteller. Inspiration is all around me. I can read a newspaper article and... JACKIE COLLINS I was never confident about finishing a book, but friends encouraged me. When I finished my first bo... JACKIE COLLINS I managed to take a family trip to the Bahamas and it was quite lovely. JACKIE COLLINS If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!. JACKIE COLLINS I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read, ... They read 'Vanity Fair' and then conside... JACKIE COLLINS These are not big corporations buying these parcels. It's working-class people trying to put their m... JACKIE COLLINS I'm truly blessed, ... I'm going to go to school, and I'm going to really dedicate myself. JACKIE COLLINS I really like being here. JACKIE COLLINS I thought I'd give it a try. JACKIE COLLINS Our kids are going to be acting out their multiplication tables and singing out their history lesson... JACKIE COLLINS We've had a lot of blood and sweat put into the school by parents and volunteers, JACKIE COLLINS We want to find out different things about celebrities, what makes them tick, how did they meet thei... JACKIE COLLINS I never cross anything out. I just add to it. It's embellishing. Then my assistant puts it on the co... JACKIE COLLINS For a long time this was the best-kept secret in Arizona. It sat here and did nothing except be pret... JACKIE COLLINS I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a huma... JACKIE ROBINSON It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties we... JACKIE ROBINSON Coffee is a language in itself. JACKIE CHAN I was born in South Bend, and I've been a Hoosier all my life. JACKIE WALORSKI I hear daily from Hoosier veterans who are forced to wait months on end for their disability claims ... JACKIE WALORSKI It is disconcerting to sit with your parent and find you're turning over your future to your gov... JACKIE WALORSKI America is a grateful nation. We cannot allow anything or anyone to get in the way of that. The word... JACKIE WALORSKI We all, I think, believe in compassion. If you look at all the world religions, all the main world r... JACKIE TABICK This idea of compassion comes to us because we're made in the image of God, who is ultimately th... JACKIE TABICK One of my favorite cartoon characters is Snoopy. I love the way he sits and lies on his kennel and c... JACKIE TABICK Symbolically, what the rabbis say is that at Passover, what we have to do is try to get rid of our h... JACKIE TABICK In one year I travelled 450,000 miles by air. JACKIE STEWART I would have been a much more popular Wolrd Champion if I had always said what people wanted to hear... JACKIE STEWART When there is an accident involving fire, in most cases death is caused by the inhalation of the tox... JACKIE STEWART We have had more sales for this year's grand prix than any other, and we have been helped in tha... JACKIE STEWART From today I am no longer a racing driver. I'm retired and I am very happy. JACKIE STEWART I'm not going away. I'll still be very much involved in the team but not with the same numbe... JACKIE STEWART The years I raced in were fantastic. There was so much change in the cars. We went from treaded tyre... JACKIE STEWART Cornering is like bringing a woman to climax. JACKIE STEWART There has been a huge advance in technology, which has improved the safety of the cars incredibly, b... JACKIE STEWART We were racing at circuits where there were no crash barriers in front of the pits, and fuel was lyi... JACKIE STEWART There is no doubt that Formula 1 has the best risk management of any sport and any industry in the w... JACKIE STEWART It takes leadership to improve safety. And I started off the movement in my time, but the person who... JACKIE STEWART Working 40 hours a week used to mean a minimum standard of living and a foothold on the first rung o... JACKIE SPEIER It is past time that consumers recognize the emerging power of 'Made In America' products an... JACKIE SPEIER When a government for the people becomes a government in spite of the people, then who are we really... JACKIE SPEIER My family wasn't particularly political. Mom and Dad voted, but that was the extent of their inv... JACKIE SPEIER When I recently spent a night at a homeless shelter, I was dismayed that members of the middle class... JACKIE SPEIER We think nothing of protecting consumers from faulty toasters or unsafe cars. Is it unreasonable to ... JACKIE SPEIER We must start to treat climate change as what it is - a threat to United States security. And we mus... JACKIE SPEIER We must start to prepare for a warming world in the same way that we prepare for the possibility of ... JACKIE SPEIER In my district, California 14, we have about 4,000 families who are on food stamps, but some of my c... JACKIE SPEIER We need affordable childcare and paid sick leave so workers don't have to choose between their h... JACKIE SPEIER I don't know what these Republican congressmen drink that make them experts on women's repro... JACKIE SPEIER There is no longer any anonymity on the Web - unless we mandate it. The most personal information ab... JACKIE SPEIER When we foster an economy without hope, we guarantee that a segment of our population will be destin... JACKIE SPEIER It is important for us to be able to meet and greet the people that we serve. And if we start having... JACKIE SPEIER Privacy isn't negotiable. It's the right of every American. JACKIE SPEIER My life experiences have helped me to be less fearful. In politics, that has allowed me to take on i... JACKIE SPEIER Planned Parenthood has a right to operate. Planned Parenthood has a right to provide family planning... JACKIE SPEIER Every day is Earth Day, and I vote we start investing in a secure climate future right now. JACKIE SPEIER I can't pretend that I'm a great student of the art of comedy because anybody that becomes p... JACKIE MASON My material is as new as anything on the dinner table. What difference does it make if I'm 70 or... JACKIE MASON I can't predict the future and I don't have respect for people who try to. JACKIE MASON I have nothing but love in my heart and everything I say is just an instrument for laughs. JACKIE MASON I've been watching politics for 35 or 40 years and you just never know. You can have one person ... JACKIE MASON My comedy doesn't come from any calculations and studies. JACKIE MASON I don't believe that anybody has come to a conclusion on why something is funny. It's funny ... JACKIE MASON If an Englishman gets run down by a truck he apologizes to the truck. JACKIE MASON Predictions are preposterous. JACKIE MASON I have enough money to last me the rest of my life unless I buy something. JACKIE MASON It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like... JACKIE MASON He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly l... JACKIE KENNEDY Dear God, please take care of your servant John Fitzgerald Kennedy. JACKIE KENNEDY Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes. JACKIE KENNEDY The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse. JACKIE KENNEDY What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had familie... JACKIE KENNEDY I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all da... JACKIE KENNEDY Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, Jack always told me to be more tolerant, like a hor... JACKIE KENNEDY I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives. JACKIE KENNEDY There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed. JACKIE KENNEDY You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat. JACKIE KENNEDY Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for ... JACKIE KENNEDY I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investin... JACKIE KENNEDY Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living al... JACKIE KENNEDY I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady. JACKIE KENNEDY There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all. JACKIE KENNEDY The only routine with me is no routine at all. JACKIE KENNEDY I want to live my life, not record it. JACKIE KENNEDY I am a woman above everything else. JACKIE KENNEDY One thing of the many things that I know about Jesse Jackson, he is persistent. JACKIE JACKSON I find Jesse Jackson to be religiously, progressively old fashioned. JACKIE JACKSON I know my brother. Michael, he's not that kind of person. He doesn't do that. That's all... JACKIE JACKSON I've raised Michael. I changed his diapers when he was little. JACKIE JACKSON Jesse Jackson, when I met him, he had an innocence about him which is still very much a part of him ... JACKIE JACKSON My husband believes that he can make a difference. He loves people. JACKIE JACKSON I only made $200 a week and I had to buy my own bullets. JACKIE GLEASON Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for in... JACKIE GLEASON The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it. JACKIE GLEASON If you have it and you know you have it, then you have it. If you have it and don't know you hav... JACKIE GLEASON How sweet it is! JACKIE GLEASON I don't think I'll ever want to do pop music. I think I'll only ever want to do classica... JACKIE EVANCHO I look up to Andrea Boccelli and Sarah Brightman. The best part about 'America's Got Talent&... JACKIE EVANCHO I'm just concerned that if I get older, people aren't going to enjoy me as much as when I wa... JACKIE EVANCHO Whenever I'm waiting behind the stage, it's kind of like my normal Jackie mode is me talking... JACKIE EVANCHO Singing is my main goal, and I think philosophy will help me write songs. JACKIE EVANCHO I love being in Malibu. It's so cool there, and the water is just, it's nice and, and I love... JACKIE EVANCHO I would like to sing for the Pope. And the Queen, and at Simon Cowell's wedding. JACKIE EVANCHO When I'm at home, I want to be a normal person. I don't want to hear, 'Can I have your a... JACKIE EVANCHO It's good to kind of get away from the star treatment. JACKIE EVANCHO The music kind of possesses me when I sing. So whenever I start to sing on a show - I mean, first, I... JACKIE EVANCHO Um, well, I made a new CD called 'Dream With Me' and it's out now, and I'm really ex... JACKIE EVANCHO I like 'Sponge Bob' and 'The Last Airbender.' I like shows where people get creative... JACKIE EVANCHO I write almost everything, actually. Songs, poems, stories. And stories out of every genre, too. JACKIE EVANCHO I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, t... JACKIE EVANCHO I miss my friends in public school, but it's kind of a part of something that you have to give u... JACKIE EVANCHO I warm up with my mom and make sure I understand what the songs are about and make sure I'm usin... JACKIE EVANCHO I'm not going to choose between classical, Broadway or pop. I would love to stay where I am now ... JACKIE EVANCHO It's always exciting to see different cities I love, and go on tour buses. It's so much fun ... JACKIE EVANCHO I say three prayers every night to make sure that God knows I thank him so much. JACKIE EVANCHO Acting and singing are actually very similar because they're both telling a story. JACKIE EVANCHO I have always despised people who thought they were better than others, and I made a promise to myse... JACKIE EVANCHO I know that I'm definitely not a big big snob, and I know that at the times that I am a diva I k... JACKIE EVANCHO I just wanted to say hi to Pittsburgh as well because I miss it. JACKIE EVANCHO And unless you have that sense of being creative, people think you're just working all the time. JACKIE DESHANNON I always went with my agenda, I just couldn't execute it. JACKIE DESHANNON I mean, I can sit down with a guitar, and in fact, we do two, three songs with just guitar and percu... JACKIE DESHANNON I think Ingmar Bergman, Francoise Truffaut - all these people created images in my mind, beautiful p... JACKIE DESHANNON I think to just single out a highlight of Elvis's career is pretty much impossible. As far as be... JACKIE DESHANNON I was lucky enough to first meet Elvis at his house in Bel Air and he used to invite different artis... JACKIE DESHANNON I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am. JACKIE DESHANNON I'm very interested to see how this new painting will go - I know I want it big and stark, and a... JACKIE DESHANNON Ignorance is kind of bliss. JACKIE DESHANNON No, I got my web site going and said I have the record out. People were just falling on the floor - ... JACKIE DESHANNON The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure. JACKIE DESHANNON There was a lot of great writing couples, but I try to do it all myself. And it was practically impo... JACKIE DESHANNON We have to set our own agenda, we have to set our own standards, we have to be very strong about wha... JACKIE DESHANNON Well, as an artist, I think that Elvis's generosity to me he always talked very highly about me,... JACKIE DESHANNON When Elvis was performing, you just tried to figure out a way to get there. I think he set all the r... JACKIE DESHANNON When I used to go to Elvis's house was always a nightmare trying to get into the house because o... JACKIE DESHANNON And I just remember, you know, breaking into tears and feeling so empty because, as long as Elvis wa... JACKIE DESHANNON I think, describing Elvis for me would be a very generous king. He was the king of rock and roll, wi... JACKIE DESHANNON There are some good songs, but not the kind of song-writing that I remember, that I like. Springstee... JACKIE DESHANNON Elvis was, at least the times I was around him, Elvis was a practical joker. He was always, had some... JACKIE DESHANNON And being away and not performing for a long time and really connecting with my audience for a long ... JACKIE DESHANNON I would think, to me, growing up in the south, growing up with all the gospel music, singing in the ... JACKIE DESHANNON So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next c... JACKIE COOPER I remember Mr. Mayer very well. He sort of liked to be the father - no, he liked to be treated like ... JACKIE COOPER The studio didn't ask them to learn their trade, they just worked them, and when that personalit... JACKIE COOPER In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means. JACKIE COOPER So I'm in that half-hour business where the most money is, so that eventually I feel like the pe... JACKIE COOPER I hope this series is good work, but it is in the half-hour medium, which is limited to a kind of me... JACKIE COOPER But I want to do good work, after this series. JACKIE COOPER But the working I would always want to do. JACKIE COOPER A nice, steady job I don't need that bad. I'm not that satisfied with it. JACKIE COOPER I would also like to act, once in a while, but not get up every morning at 5:30 or six o'clock a... JACKIE COOPER Well, they just don't know anything else except that one form of their business, acting, and the... JACKIE COOPER From that, I became very anxious to produce something of my own. JACKIE COOPER I never say too much about that in public interviews, because it disappoints the public to tell them... JACKIE COOPER So I felt, well, I'll make the money and, with the money, do what I want to do. JACKIE COOPER So then you have to say to yourself: Do I want to be rich, or do I want to do good work? JACKIE COOPER There was only so much television you could do. JACKIE COOPER To me, the series was the end of the actor, when the series ended. JACKIE COOPER They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it. JACKIE COOPER People like Spencer Tracy held up because they had the background originally, but to this day they n... JACKIE COOPER A lot of people like to run in plays because it's a nice, steady job. JACKIE COOPER They had to start shaving my chin when I was 12 years old because light started to pick it up. JACKIE COOPER There was never any effort made out there to improve the artist. JACKIE COOPER So if I keep making mistakes on Broadway or tape or film, producing, directing or acting, I can go a... JACKIE COOPER I just knew how to do the one thing I did, and whether I did it well or not depended on who the dire... JACKIE COOPER They kept me in short pants as long as they could, until they were shaving the hair on my legs becau... JACKIE COOPER If it's boring, then it's tiring. JACKIE COOPER Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead. JACKIE CHAN My affection for Taiwan... is witnessed by everyone. My wife is Taiwanese and I am a son-in-law of T... JACKIE CHAN I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life. JACKIE CHAN In the past when I was in Hollywood, I was like a dog. I felt humiliated. My English was not good. P... JACKIE CHAN For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing - stocks, financial speculation, real ... JACKIE CHAN A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, 'Jackie, are you scared?' Of course I'm scared... JACKIE CHAN Sometimes I do need to go to karaoke, sometimes I need to relax. JACKIE CHAN I feel like I have lived all over the world since I get to go everywhere to film. JACKIE CHAN If everyone does some good, think of what a good world this will be. JACKIE CHAN When I give somebody something and see their face, it just makes me so happy. JACKIE CHAN