Quotes About Gary Cooper

#1. Anyone who would let Gary Cooper and the entire cast go charging on horseback without first finding out what kind of footing the horses had is nuts and cannot possibly direct a motion picture.

Dick York

#2. For some reason, the movies in the '40s have the best personalities: Jimmy Stewart, Gary Cooper, Betty Grable, Gene Tierney, and all those people. For some reason, I seem to gravitate more toward the '40s, and I don't necessarily know why. I just love the people.

Robert Osborne

#3. I suspected the movies, considering her cheap crack about me being a ten-cent Clark Gable, which was ridiculous. He simpers, to begin with, and to end with no one can say I resemble a movie actor, and if they did it would be more apt to be Gary Cooper than Clark Gable.

Rex Stout

#4. I grew up with the television product being old Western serials like Roy Rogers, and John Wayne and Gary Cooper, and many others were my favorites when I was a young person going to films.

Steve Kanaly

#5. I was shaped by the heroes in the films I saw, which you always want to emulate and be like. I wanted to be like Alan Ladd, Gary Cooper, Jimmy Stewart.

Robert Osborne

#6. It comes as a great shock ... to discover that the flag to which you have pledged allegiance ... has not pledged allegiance to you. It comes as a great shock to see Gary Cooper killing off the Indians, and although you are rooting for Gary Cooper, that the Indians are you.

James Baldwin

#7. Gary Cooper was a good friend. He was a great nature lover. He was like an American Indian, he knew every leaf that was turned over. It was an education to go for a walk with him.

Richard Widmark

#8. I think they are grooming me as another Gary Cooper.

Barry Gibb

#9. A bunch of six nicer people, I couldn't be more fortunate to call my family - from Lee Pace, who is so dear. When I first saw him, I said he's like a Gary Cooper. He's bashful, he's shy, he's sensitive, he's a great actor, he's beautiful, he's delicious.

Ellen Greene

#10. My old drama coach used to say, 'Don't just do something, stand there.' Gary Cooper wasn't afraid to do nothing.

Clint Eastwood

#11. I learned early on, having known the most handsome, successful, Gary Cooper, Clark Gable, Robert Taylor, don't ever spend too much time looking in the mirror.

Robert Stack

#12. I didn't know what to expect from a famous movie star; maybe that he'd be sort of stuck-up, you know. But not Gary Cooper. He horsed around so much ... that I had a hard time painting him.

Norman Rockwell

#13. I seldom ever missed a Gary Cooper picture if I could manage to see it.

Clint Walker

#14. The very first film I ever saw was during the war. My mother took me, I must have been about 4, and that was Beau Geste, with Gary Cooper.

Terence Stamp

#15. It comes as a great shock to see Gary Cooper killing off the Indians and, although you are rooting for Gary Cooper, that the Indians is you

James Baldwin

#16. If Gary Cooper and Henry Fonda had a baby, it would be Matthew Modine.

Stanley Kubrick

#17. In the days of Gary Cooper, James Stewart etc, film stars personified the better aspects of human nature.

Alexander Walker

#18. Gregory Peck is the hottest thing in town. Some say he is a second Gary Cooper. Actually, he is the first Gregory Peck.

Gregory Peck

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

Gary Cooper

#20. Moviegoers like to believe that those they have made stars are great actors. People used to say that Gary Cooper was a fine actor probably because when they looked in his face they were ready to give him their power of attorney.

Pauline Kael

#21. Fonda and Gary Cooper had the best sense of timing of all the actors I knew.

Gene Tierney

#22. 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.

Gary Cooper

#23. Until I came along all the leading men
were handsome, but luckily they wrote a
lot of stories about the fellow next door.

Gary Cooper

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

Gary Cooper

#25. People ask me how come you've been around so long. Well, it's through playing the part of Mr Average Joe American.

Gary Cooper

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

Gary Cooper

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

Gary Cooper

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

Gary Cooper

#29. 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.

Gary Cooper

#30. Cooper looked at the house and tried to fix it in his mind like a painting that would never leave him. But its beauty was so think and so real that it could never be just a painting

Gary D. Schmidt

#31. There ain't never a horse that never been rode; there ain't never a rider that can't be thrown.

Gary Cooper

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

Gary Cooper

#33. 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.

Gary Cooper

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

Gary Cooper

#35. Having to work hard never had any real appeal for me, and that may have some connection with me being in the movies.

Gary Cooper