Gary Cooper Quotes

#1. 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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#2. The only achievement I am really proud of is the friends I have made in this community.

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#3. 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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#4. In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.

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#5. 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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#6. 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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#7. There aint never a horse that could'nt be rode
and never a rider that could'nt be throwed

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#8. No mistake. I shall regret the absence of your keen mind. Unfortunately it is inseparable from an extremely disturbing body.

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#9. The general consensus seems to be that I don't act at all.

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#10. I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper.

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#11. 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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#12. One nice thing about silence is that it can't be repeated.

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#13. 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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#14. 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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