Frank James "Gary" Cooper, 1901 - 1961
Born: 7 May 1901, Helena, Montana
Died: 13 May 1961, Los Angeles, California
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- All this business about me never saying anything is a piece of crap. permalink
Gary Cooper - I don't like to see exaggerated airs and exploding egos in people who are already established. No player ever rises to prominence solely on talent. They're molded by forces other than themselves. They should remember this — and at least twice a week drop to their knees and thank Providence for elevating them from cow ranches, dime store ribbon counters, and bookkeeping desks. permalink
Gary Cooper - I feel very strongly that actors haven't any business at all to shoot their faces off about things I know we know very little about. permalink
Gary Cooper - I haven't read a half a dozen books in my life permalink
Gary Cooper - I looked it at like this way. To get folks to like you, as a screen player I mean, I figured you had to sort of be their ideal. I don't mean a handsome knight riding a white horse, but a fella who answered the description of a right guy. permalink
Gary Cooper - I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper. permalink
Gary Cooper - on his decision not to take the leading role in It Happened One Night (1934) - I've had lines on my face since I was twenty. Wind and sun put them there. permalink
Gary Cooper - If you hit the mark with two out of every five movies you'll keep the wheels of the cycle turning. permalink
Gary Cooper - In my whole life I've never had a woman so much in love with me as Ingrid Bergman was. The day after the picture ended I couldn't get her on the phone. permalink
Gary Cooper - In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl. permalink
Gary Cooper - Looked like she was a cold dish with a man until you got her pants down, then she'd explode. permalink
Gary Cooper - Movie acting is a pretty silly business for a man because it takes less training, less ability, and less brains to be successful in it than any other business I can think of. permalink
Gary Cooper - Naturally, the nearer the character you play comes to the character you are, the more authenticity you give it. You are not acting so much as being. The result is realism. permalink
Gary Cooper - Naturalness is hard to talk about, but I guess it boils down to this: You find out what people expect of your type of character and then you give them what they want. That way an actor never seems unnatural or affected no matter what role he plays. permalink
Gary Cooper - People hang on after they should quit, because the urge to act stays with you. Sometimes in the middle of a scene I find myself saying a piece of dialog from 15 years ago. I've thought of retiring lots of times, but then I think I would just go nuts, and probably spend all my time searching for a really great Western script. permalink
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