Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.


Jackie Robinson

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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