Post by *~Mrs. Cooper ~* on Oct 11, 2006 22:05:39 GMT -5
Quotes by Gary Cooper
"I looked at it 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."
"My whole career has been one of extreme good fortune. I think I'm an average actor....In acting you can do something and maybe....some people think it's fine, but you know inside of you that it can be done better....You don't feel that you really attained a goal in the acting business; you always feel that you're still learning."
"Nan Collins my manager came from Gary, Indiana and suggested I adopt that name. She felt it was more exciting than Frank. I figured I'd give it a try. Good thing she didn't come from Poughkeepsie.
"The only achievement I am really proud of is the friends I have made in this community."
"I don't like to see exagerated 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, dimestore ribbon counters and bookkeeping desk."
"I suppose one of the most important things about real beauty is intelligence, and real womanliness -- it's a combination of intelligence and all the instincts of womanhood, motherhood, and the beauty of girlhood. These things all sort of go in together, and they are in so many people who are not reputed beauties."
"If you want to call me that, smile."
Gary Cooper to Walter Huston in "The Virginian" (1929) and often quoted by him afterwards.
"I liked the role because... I was portraying a good, sound American character."
Gary Cooper on his role as Sergeant York (1941)
"For my money, they'd have spread a net for Doe and he would have jumped off the roof at the end of the picture. That's the way I should like to have done it. Because I believe that's what he would have done. Why not? Men die, you know, for things they believe in."
Gary Cooper on the end of "Meet John Doe" (1940)
"It was Sergeant Alvin York who won this award. Shucks, I've been in the business for sixteen years and sometimes dreamed I might get one of these things. That's all I can say.... Funny, when I was dreaming I always made a good speech."
Gary Cooper's speech at the Academy Awards Ceremony in February 1942
--Thanks to "Coop Forever" de.geocities.com/coop_forever/index.html
"I looked at it 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."
"My whole career has been one of extreme good fortune. I think I'm an average actor....In acting you can do something and maybe....some people think it's fine, but you know inside of you that it can be done better....You don't feel that you really attained a goal in the acting business; you always feel that you're still learning."
"Nan Collins my manager came from Gary, Indiana and suggested I adopt that name. She felt it was more exciting than Frank. I figured I'd give it a try. Good thing she didn't come from Poughkeepsie.
"The only achievement I am really proud of is the friends I have made in this community."
"I don't like to see exagerated 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, dimestore ribbon counters and bookkeeping desk."
"I suppose one of the most important things about real beauty is intelligence, and real womanliness -- it's a combination of intelligence and all the instincts of womanhood, motherhood, and the beauty of girlhood. These things all sort of go in together, and they are in so many people who are not reputed beauties."
"If you want to call me that, smile."
Gary Cooper to Walter Huston in "The Virginian" (1929) and often quoted by him afterwards.
"I liked the role because... I was portraying a good, sound American character."
Gary Cooper on his role as Sergeant York (1941)
"For my money, they'd have spread a net for Doe and he would have jumped off the roof at the end of the picture. That's the way I should like to have done it. Because I believe that's what he would have done. Why not? Men die, you know, for things they believe in."
Gary Cooper on the end of "Meet John Doe" (1940)
"It was Sergeant Alvin York who won this award. Shucks, I've been in the business for sixteen years and sometimes dreamed I might get one of these things. That's all I can say.... Funny, when I was dreaming I always made a good speech."
Gary Cooper's speech at the Academy Awards Ceremony in February 1942
--Thanks to "Coop Forever" de.geocities.com/coop_forever/index.html