Actor

In 1938 the Coogan Law was passed in California.

I knew San Francisco when it was a wild place during Prohibition. There were more speakeasies than churches, and you could always get a drink.

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 was very close to my father. Very close.

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

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

I am a Catholic.

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

I have no regrets.

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

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

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

I dread going to court.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

I consider myself very lucky.

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.