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If I'd known there was this much prep work involved, I wouldn't have done it.


Jackie Sherrill

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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 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 I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't k...
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 ...
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