Quotes from Jackie Coogan

Peck and Peck paid us $100,000 per year to put out a Jackie Coogan line of clothes. Millions and millions of caps were sold.

I led a sheltered life until I went to college. But I wasn't deprived and I can't say I missed anything as a kid except a lot of heartaches.

It's funny, but people still get us mixed up. They come up to me and say, 'Gee, we still remember how great you were with Wally Berry in 'The Champ' and I have to tell them that was Jackie Cooper.'

Chaplin was the greatest thing ever to hit motion pictures.

My pictures of 'Oliver Twist' and 'A Boy in Flanders' are being used as school lessons.

Uncle Fester brought me back with the young group. He was very 'in' with the teens.

When I was a kid I had a ball in San Francisco because my Uncle Lou was a gripman on the California cable car line.

My uncle Les Dolliver was a partner with the Nasser brothers, who owned a string of theaters in San Francisco, and also supplied motion picture projectors and seats for theaters. So I was always around theater people.

Show business is stale ideas and stale actors.

Fester has a lot going for him. He's 120 volt AC and DC, and he's great with dynamite. His only trouble is that he's one of the great losers of our time. He would make a great spy, but he kinda stands out in a crowd.

My stepfather was mean to me and caused many an argument between my mother and myself. Once he even bawled me out for using one of my cars.

You name it, I've done it: circus, Chautauqua, variety, movies, stage, radio, TV, personal appearances.

I used to work eight hours a day and squeeze studies in whenever I could.

Unless I was to play an accepted character from a novel, I won't put on a toupee.

When you're accepted you don't have to fight for parts.

My hobbies hardly leave me time for work, or vice versa.

I dread going to court.

Maybe I'm funny but I look forward to getting to work each day.

Everyone tells me that my pictures make little children happy.

I manage to live the way I want to, and I've never had to worry about finding jobs.