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.
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.
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.
Gary Cooper - the greatest listener in the world! And he used to answer in kind, which is wonderful because you don't see that anymore. People don't listen. They really don't.
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.
Cutting out meat or fish I could maybe just about manage - living without either? I can't see myself doing that ever, ever, ever.
I think they are grooming me as another Gary Cooper.
I remember being mesmerized by 'Love in the Afternoon,' with Gary Cooper.
If Gary Cooper and Henry Fonda had a baby, it would be Matthew Modine.
I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper.
Fonda and Gary Cooper had the best sense of timing of all the actors I knew.
My old drama coach used to say, 'Don't just do something, stand there.' Gary Cooper wasn't afraid to do nothing.
In the days of Gary Cooper, James Stewart etc, film stars personified the better aspects of human nature.
If you never allow your children to exceed what they can do, how are they ever going to manage adult life - where a lot of it is managing more than you thought you could manage?
You very seldom see a picture where you watch the process of falling in love.
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.