A biography for Jackie Cooganhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“When I was 10, I was playing golf exhibitions with Gene Sarazen and Walter Hagen.”
“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've been selling myself for a long time.”
“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.”
“Everything I've ever wanted to do, I've done.”
“I lost my hair, and went around wearing a hair piece.”
“It is my intention at all times to see that my mother and my little brother are amply provided for.”
“I toured as a nightclub comedian and did some television in New York.”
“I used to work eight hours a day and squeeze studies in whenever I could.”
“The pictures I appear in are shown in school rooms all over the country.”
“Normal boy? How would I know what a normal boy would do?”
“I dread going to court.”
“People respect drama. They don't respect comedy.”
“Working with Chaplin was a marvelous experience.”
“I consider myself very lucky.”
“Show business is stale ideas and stale actors.”
“Being who I was, I had the best swimming instructor - Duke Kahanamoku - the year after he won the Olympics.”
“When 'The Kid' made its premiere I was so young I fell asleep and never saw the movie.”
“I was very close to my father. Very close.”