89 Quotes by Jackie Coogan

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

I was very close to my father. Very close.

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.

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