Gary Cooper Quotes
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Having to work hard never had any real appeal for me, and that may have some connection with me being in the movies.
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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.
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This is a terrible place to spend your life in. Nobody in Hollywood is normal. Absolutely nobody. And they have such a vicious attitude toward one another. They say much worse things about each other than outsiders say about them, and nobody has any real friends.
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One nice thing about silence is that it can't be repeated.
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There ain't never a horse that never been rode; there ain't never a rider that can't be thrown.
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People all say that I've had a bad break. But today... today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth.
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The only achievement I am really proud of is the friends I have made in this community.
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It’s literally true, as Shakespeare said--all the world’s a stage. It wasn’t that way when I first got into the movies in 1924, but it is now. That’s why I find Hollywood newer and more exciting every day. Whatever you hear it’s still a place where a kid from Montana can jump on a horse, ride that-a-way, and keep right on going.
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People ask me how come you've been around so long. Well, it's through playing the part of Mr Average Joe American.
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Until I came along all the leading men were handsome, but luckily they wrote a lot of stories about the fellow next door.
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One man who saw through his own eyes and thought with his own brain. Such men may be rare, they may be unknown, but they move the world.
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I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper.
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Please make sure everyone knows how much their messages mean to me. They have added greatly to my peace of mind. I only wish some of the writers would take a more positive approach to the menace of cancer. I've got it, sure; but I'm not afraid to use the word. Some of them act like it's a dirty word. That's the wrong attitude. We should all bring it out in the open, recognize that it exists, and fight it! Cancer is everybody's enemy. We can't 'think' an enemy out of existence by ignoring it.
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In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.
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No mistake, I shall regret the absence of your keen mind; unfortunately, it is inseparable from an extremely disturbing body.
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