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I think they are grooming me as another Gary Cooper. -- Barry Gibb
I seldom ever missed a Gary Cooper picture if I could manage to see it. -- Clint Walker
Fonda and Gary Cooper had the best sense of timing of all the actors I knew. -- Gene Tierney
In the days of Gary Cooper, James Stewart etc, film stars personified the better aspects of human nature. -- Alexander Walker
My old drama coach used to say, 'Don't just do something, stand there.' Gary Cooper wasn't afraid to do nothing. -- Clint Eastwood
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
When you're still, and some actors are really brilliant at that, you bring a kind of energy to you as opposed to sending the energy out. There are some actors, like Gary Cooper or Kevin Spacey, that are absolutely brilliant - Gene Hackman is another - at being and allowing the audience to just do the work. -- Gabriel Byrne
If Gary Cooper and Henry Fonda had a baby, it would be Matthew Modine. -- Stanley Kubrick
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
It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian. -- James A. Baldwin
It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian. -- James A. Baldwin
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
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
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I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper. -- Gary Cooper

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