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REGGIE JACKSON No group of our citizens can be denied the right to participate in the opportunities of first-class ...
TERRY SANFORD Every time I look at my pocketbook, I see Jackie Robinson.
WILLIE MAYS Without question, the Red Ryder BB gun is the most important gun in the history of American weaponry...
TED NUGENT It's not every day you get to be in a movie about Jackie Robinson, so you want to do it as right...
ANDRE HOLLAND Jackie Robinson is a true legend.
SIDNEY POITIER The most important issue we have to deal with is freedom of movement.
ANNA LINDH Look at the names in the Jackie Robinson Wing, ... Steve Young, Dorothy Hamill. The Jackie Robinson ...
CALVIN MURPHY It seems to me the most important issue in the LGBT community is the right to be queer-the right to ...
JASMINE GUY The story of Jackie Robinson is bigger than baseball. Integration at that time was a radical idea; s...
BILL SCHUMANN What we spend our time on is probably the most important decision we make.
RAY KURZWEIL People in life should not judge other people whoever they are whatever they do there religion or cre...
GARY F EVANS... When I went to Brooklyn in 1948 Jackie Robinson was at the height of his brilliant career.
ERNIE HARWELL Every year we discuss Jackie Robinson Day, which is April 15. We talk about it throughout baseball, ...
CURTIS GRANDERSON If they did it with Jackie Robinson already, they should do that for the Latin American players. And...
MATTY ALOU I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON To investigate the history of man's development, the most important finds are, of course, homini...
RICHARD LEAKEY One of the most important roles of our journalists is to be watchdogs.
DAN RATHER The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a co...
GAYLORD NELSON At a certain point in their historical lives, social classes become detached from their traditional ...
ANTONIO GRAMSCI Robinson was important to all blacks. To make it into the majors and to take all the name calling, h...
WILLIE MAYS I liked Jackie Robinson because he was cool to watch, not because he was black. Every time you turne...
CHEECH MARIN [Two other books I recommend are] What I Learned from Jackie Robinson ... Voices of Summer.
CARL ERSKINE Tremendous changes are taking place in our country, eradicating the concept of second-class citizens...
ADAM CLAYTON POWELL, JR. From our perspective, our (service) job is never done. Service is our most important issue. It's the...
IVAN SEIDENBERG It's one of the most important things at the end of the day, being able to say no to an investme...
HENRY KRAVIS There's definitely a growing gap between African-American culture and baseball. The doors Jackie Rob...
DAVID OGDEN The African-American experience is one of the most important threads in the American tapestry.
BILL FRIST If I were asked to say the most important things that lead to a successful life, I should say that, ...
CHARLES M. SCHWAB How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
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LEWIS CARROLL Tom DeLay is the leader of the extreme right-wing faction in American politics whose policies and ab...
BERNARD SANDERS Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the righ...
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER The most important thing about Jazz at Lincoln Center is the fact that it's the first time that ...
RAFAEL VINOLY You want to defend citizenship? Don't persecute or isolate those without papers. Just live like ...
ERIC LIU I guess what really made me a Dodgers fan from the beginning was that the team had Jackie Robinson, ...
CHEECH MARIN For the first time, I was able to cross the border and when I was asked my citizenship, I could say ...
TANITH BELBIN Our mission is at once the oldest and the most basic of this country: to right wrong, to do justice,...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON The most important question in American cinema, I've learned, is 'When is lunch?'
TOMMY LEE JONES I'll be a Quebecker-Canadian. I'm from Quebec, and every time I go to a country, I say that....
CELINE DION Time really is one big continuous cloth, no? We habitually cut out pieces of time to fit us, so we t...
HARUKI MURAKAMI The most important issue is clearly not the quality of treatment and care of these prisoners; rather...
CHARLES BASS 'Free markets' is not a liberal or conservative issue. The rule of law is not a Right or Lef...
DAVE BRAT Electing Barack Obama president was a glorious Jackie Robinson moment for the United States of Ameri...
TIMOTHY NOAH To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don't think it's necessar...
SIDNEY POITIER You probably have the right to disclose them, guaranteed by the First Amendment, but that’s no gua...
KENNETH EADE The most important issue we have to deal with is freedom of movement
ANNA LINDH May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The desire from those abroad to join our ranks is overwhelming. Tens of millions have applied for th...
CEDRIC RICHMOND The story of Jackie Robinson is also the story of Branch Rickey. He had many reasons for doing what ...
JIM BROWN For me, love is the most important force. It moves the universe.
LAURA ESQUIVEL Success is the most important to many, to me it's just a bonus.
LUCAS GRABEEL Any death is stupid from the viewpoint of whoever is undergoing it, Adam One used to say, because no...
MARGARET ATWOOD I've always resented the smug statements of politicians, media commentators, corporate executives wh...
HOWARD ZINN She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.
DIANA WYNNE JONES The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
NEIL GAIMAN What is the Other?" they ask.
The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ...
PAULO COELHO It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Grief is the price we pay for love.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ...
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o...
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STEVE KING The most important job I'll ever have is spelled D-A-D.
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JACKIE ROBINSON The many of us who attain what we may and forget those who help us along the line we've got to remem...
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JACKIE ROBINSON A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
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JACKIE ROBINSON This ain't fun. But you watch me, I'll get it done.
JACKIE ROBINSON Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.
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JACKIE ROBINSON I had no future with the Dodgers, because I was too closely identified with Branch Rickey. After the...
JACKIE ROBINSON The old Dodgers were something special, but of my teammates overall, there was nobody like Pee Wee R...
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JACKIE ROBINSON I cannot salute the flag; I know that I am a black man in a white world. In 1972, in 1947, at my bir...
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JACKIE ROBINSON The black press, some liberal sportswriters, and even a few politicians were banging away at those J...
JACKIE ROBINSON I had practiced with the team, and the first scheduled game was with the University of Missouri. The...
JACKIE ROBINSON [Knight Ridder Newspapers Helen Keller believed in having a] courageous dignity in the presence of f...
JACKIE ROBINSON [Fortunately for Kent, this tempest in a Petri dish has since been squashed, but it was Bradley’s ...
JACKIE ROBINSON I think it was one of the greatest times ever in the world to play baseball. Television was in its i...
JACKIE ROBINSON I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another i...
JACKIE ROBINSON There's not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.
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JACKIE ROBINSON Wait til next year.
JACKIE ROBINSON We're in a real crisis situation where many times people are being turned away at the door.
JACKIE ROBINSON People that work can get in and out in record time for the luncheon as we have an express line for t...
JACKIE ROBINSON Above anything else, I hate to lose.
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JACKIE ROBINSON This ain't fun. But you watch me, I'll get it done.
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JACKIE ROBINSON A life isn't significant except for its impact on other lives.
JACKIE ROBINSON The colonel replied that he didn't care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it ha...
JACKIE ROBINSON It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, t...
JACKIE ROBINSON In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.
JACKIE ROBINSON Who is ready to settle for five minutes when three hours does nicely?
JACKIE COLLINS Coffee is a language in itself.
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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...
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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