Top 16 Quotes & Sayings by Gary Cooper

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Last updated on April 14, 2025.

Gary Cooper was an American actor known for his strong, quiet screen persona and understated acting style. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor twice and had a further three nominations, as well as an Academy Honorary Award in 1961 for his career achievements. He was one of the top 10 film personalities for 23 consecutive years and one of the top money-making stars for 18 years. The American Film Institute (AFI) ranked Cooper at No. 11 on its list of the 25 greatest male stars of classic Hollywood cinema.

American - Actor | May 7, 1901 - May 13, 1961

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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.

Gary Cooper

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

Gary Cooper

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

Gary Cooper

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

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.

Gary Cooper

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

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

Gary Cooper

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

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

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.

Gary Cooper

No mistake, I shall regret the absence of your keen mind; unfortunately, it is inseparable from an extremely disturbing body.

Gary Cooper

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

Gary Cooper

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

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.

Gary Cooper

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.

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.

Gary Cooper

Top 16 Quotes & Sayings by Gary Cooper

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