Jackie Cooper Quotes

Well, we're in show business, and I have been making a living in this business a long time and inevitably it means taking what it is that you've done and hopefully you're showing it to a lot of people who like it.

When I was starting out, young actresses had the studio system to protect them. Now you have a host of sharks, from your agent to your publicist to your lawyer.

If I or any other black can deliver at the box office, I'll get a lot of work. Too many young actors, regardless of their color, try to play an attitude on camera and fail to remember their job is to fit into an entertainment.

But this is called show business, not show family.

I didn't get here for my acting... but I love show business.

Reality is, I'm an actor and an entertainer, and I really wouldn't know what to do with another profession.

When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.

I'm celebrating my 40th year in show business this year.

What we're supposed to do as actors is be able to portray real human beings and emotions. And if you grow up in this bubble of showbiz and you only know people who make movies, you don't really have an understanding of the world outside.

I'm a rapper trying to be an actor.

You can work and scratch out a living in the theatre, but, if you want to make money, you've got to hit the road. You've got to play big houses of 2, 3 thousand seaters with your name above the bill, do popular fare and reach out to the audience such as it is.

In show business, you get chewed up and spit out.

I'm a performer. We don't retire.

Theater is a gamble and a tough road.

A comedian's career span is five or 10 years. I am lucky to have worked with so many distinguished actors and their grandsons.

I will continue to do TV so long as I get to prove my acting prowess.

My dear friend Randeep Hooda says I am more a unionist than an actor. I reminded him I was a star and not just an actor.

If you want a job, do what I did: work for other people for 50 years; but the odds of you getting swallowed up by the blasphemous godless, decadent, deadly spirit of today's show business are thousands to one.

WWE prepares you for so much other stuff in entertainment.

I have always made impresarios a lot of money across my career and have never, so far as I am aware, given any of them heart attacks.

I think probably the most difficult challenge was just the climb and rise in show business because I went through my entire twenties with some success as a comedy writer but not much as a performer. And you have to be kind of informed and naive at the same time.

In show business, more showgirls are kept than promises.

I really saw Pat Brady, Kelsey Grammer's character's point of view that it's a business. It's show business. So, it was an incredible opportunity to work with really wonderful creatives and the script was fantastic. What was so interesting to me about the studio system was that a lot of the politics that were in play then are so really relevant to today.

Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly unless you have the right set of values and understand why you're doing it. Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already gotten to that point, and seen all the yuck stuff - which is probably why they originally didn't want me to act.

I've been involved in burlesque for a really long time and I've always been really interested in burlesque, and I was writing musicals for different studios.