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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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Gary Cooper, an American film actor, was born on May 7, 1901, in Indiana, United States, and passed away on May 13, 1961. Known for his rugged man image in films, he won two Academy Awards for Best Actor. more

“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.”

Thinking Knows Should Mind Mean Use Fighting Wish Existence Attitude Enemy Know How Please Approach Messages Cancer Dirty Peace Of Mind Not Afraid Menace Dirty Words Wrong Attitude

Author:Gary Cooper

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

May Real Hard Hard Work Connections Appeals

Author:Gary Cooper

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

People Wells Long Asks Average Ask Me Average Joe

Author:Gary Cooper

“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.”

Real Attitude Terrible Normal Hollywood Outsiders Real Friends Vicious

Author:Gary Cooper

“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.”

World Way Firsts Said Stills Kids Stage Hollywood Exciting Horse Montana

Author:Gary Cooper

“Clothes have always had a wonderful influence on my physical well-being as well as my self-assurance. All I have to do to make me feel like a new and younger man is to order three new suits of clothes. My fur-lined overcoat gave me such a glow of health that very shortly after acquiring it I was able to enjoy the hazards of a Gargantuan studio cocktail party without a single twinge of pain.”

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Book:It took nine tailors

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“To my mind there is nothing so beautiful or so provocative as a secondhand book store...To me it is astonishing and miraculous to think that any one of us can poke among the stalls for something to read overnight--and that this something may be the sum of a lifetime of sweat, tears, and genius that some poor, struggling, blessed fellow expended trying to teach us the truth.”

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Author:Lionel Barrymore

“Half the people in Hollywood are dying to be discovered and the other half are afraid they will be.”

People Funny Half Dying Hollywood Other Half

Author:Lionel Barrymore

“This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal to the masses there can be no sincerity in them.”

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Author:Lionel Barrymore

“I can remember when nobody believed an actor and didn't care what he believed.”

I Can Care Remember Actors Remember When

Author:Lionel Barrymore

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