Top 88 Quotes & Sayings by Jackie Coogan

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Last updated on December 3, 2024.

John Leslie Coogan was an American actor and comedian who began his film career as a child actor in silent films.

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

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I won't wear a toupee.

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You have to re-establish yourself in this business about every 10 years.

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When I was making the 'Kid' my salary was $75 a week. Chaplin gave me a $5,000 bonus at the end of the picture.

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

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When I was 7, we bought a big house at the corner of Wilshire and Western and put in one of the earliest swimming pools in Southern California.

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

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

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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.

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People respect drama. They don't respect comedy.

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San Francisco's my home town, you know.

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Chaplin himself was the greatest scene stealer of all time. No matter what was happening Charlie could draw attention to himself - if he wanted to.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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

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

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In 1938 the Coogan Law was passed in California.

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Other boys went to see Babe Ruth. Babe Ruth came to see me.

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I've had highs and lows.

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

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My dad had a good sense about merchandising, and I appeared in all kinds of products from pencil boxes and soap to suits and caps.

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

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Chaplin was the greatest thing ever to hit motion pictures.

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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.

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

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I had the flu in New York and pushed the President of the United States off the front pages.

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Normal boy? How would I know what a normal boy would do?

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

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I was very close to my father. Very close.

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

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

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

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

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Those 20 silents we made grossed a few million each and the early sound pictures did very well.

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

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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.

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We used Chaplin's formula in all my pictures. Make 'em laugh for five and a half reels, and then make 'em cry in the last half reel. But give 'em a chance to dry their eyes before the lights come up.

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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.

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When 'The Kid' made its premiere I was so young I fell asleep and never saw the movie.

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I never owned a piano and I never had a house full of period furniture.

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Working with Chaplin was a marvelous experience.

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

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

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Being who I was, I had the best swimming instructor - Duke Kahanamoku - the year after he won the Olympics.

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

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I consider myself very lucky.

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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.

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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.

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