Top 45 Jackie Coogan Quotes

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

That’s what TV has forgotten: how to entertain.

I have no regrets.

There isn’t any more real show business.

My Indian name is Bemay-Ultze and means ‘talking eyes.’

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

It is my intention at all times to see that my mother and my little brother are amply provided for.

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

Working with Chaplin was a marvelous experience.

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.

I don’t think its better to grow up normal and get the measles and mumps and have your front teeth knocked out.

Fester never talked in the ‘Addams Family’ cartoons. So I raised my voice an octave and I gave him a beetling look.

I surfed from Baja California to San Francisco when there were only nine or 10 surfers on the entire Pacific Coast. I spent three-month summer vacations in our High Sierra cabin 60 miles from the nearest road. I drank milk from my own ranch.

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

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.’

If it isn’t funny, it isn’t worth mentioning. And if it isn’t funny, why, you make it funny!

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

At one time my name was on 50 or 60 different items, from dolls to pencil boxes.

Pittsburgh, where you once couldn’t wear a shirt for more than an hour, is a lot cleaner than Hollywood.

Show business is stale ideas and stale actors.

I was blackballed by the studios when I sued by stepfather.

Everything I’ve ever wanted to do, I’ve done.

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

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

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

Television is a director’s medium.

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

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

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

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 lost my hair, and went around wearing a hair piece.

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

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.

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.

I’ve had highs and lows.

An actor like me hardly ever sees a producer. My agent will say, how about Coogan for the part. The producer will say yes. So you never see the producer.

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

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

Most people think ‘The Kid’ was my first film. Not so.

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.

Everyone tells me that my pictures make little children happy.

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.

Picture-making now is nothing like it was in the old days.

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.

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.