Quotes from Gary Cooper

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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