Top 88 Quotes & Sayings by Jackie Coogan - Page 2

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.

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 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.

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

All it took was one good role to convince producers all over again that I could act.

The trouble was that I tried to prolong my youth.

I've thrown my hair piece away.

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

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

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

Everyone tells me that my pictures make little children happy.

Television is a director's medium.

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.

I am a Catholic.

I've been selling myself for a long time.

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

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

As long as I can remember, being in pictures has made it necessary for me to do my best at all times. I really don't believe anything in any school could be much better to learn than that.

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

The pictures I appear in are shown in school rooms all over the country.

I dread going to court.

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

Show business is stale ideas and stale actors.

There isn't any more real show business.

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.'

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

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