Quotes from Jackie Coogan

Before there were stages we worked on raised platforms with cheesecloth overhead to diffuse the bright sunlight. The reason they built stages for silents was to get out of the wind.

Around 1950, I quit and went into the appliance business. But even then I was still in show business.

I appeared on 'Pantomine Quiz' and played occasional night club dates.

When I was 10, I was playing golf exhibitions with Gene Sarazen and Walter Hagen.

The Coogan Law had to come and it just happens that I was the goat for it.

I do my acting job and then get out on the golf course as quickly as I can.

Send me a good script and I'll be there.

I was only to see Mr. Chaplin once after 'The Kid.' A great artist, one of the greatest, but I'm afraid I don't think very much of him as a man. Running away from the country that gave him everything and denouncing the country in addition is something you simply can't make any allowances for.

Acting is a great life and all that, but it's the director who is really in control.

Ask anyone - public adoration is the greatest thing in the world.

I've thrown my hair piece away.

My last toupee is hanging on the door of my living room with a tomahawk through it.

I've had highs and lows.

We're separated, and I regret to say that we just don't seem to hit it off. I don't know what Betty's plans are. Perhaps she plans a divorce. As far as I am concerned, that doesn't fit in with my scheme of things.

Kids haven't changed since my day except they are more hip.

The only vacation I've had was the four years and 11 months I put in with the Air Force in World War II.

I'll never live down my image as 'The Kid.' But its nice to be remembered as Fester too.

Throughout my boyhood my father impressed upon me the value of money.

I toured as a nightclub comedian and did some television in New York.

That picture was made before there was even a union in this business. So, I don't make any money out of the 'The Kid's' reruns. Chaplin owns the negative outright.

If you're known as a dramatic actor it helps you a lot. Even though to me it's simpler, it leaves a deeper impression on the public.

In 1923 I was the No. 1 box office star. A year later it was Rin Tin Tin.

I sure would like to hear from those British and Gurkha knife artists I took into Burma.

I plan to keep working until I'm 65. Then I'm going to retire. I've got 50 acres on the gulf at La Paz and I'm going to hunt and fish.