- Jackie Coogan: In 1922, I was number one box office in the world and fame and the adoration of the public bestowed on me was rather frightening. At this time I was earning just from motion pictures about $500,000 a year.
- Dickie Moore: Suddenly you had a lot of reality that was really unpleasant that was touching everyone in the country. The fantasy that enabled the era of the child star to exist gave way to the era of reality, in which the child performer if indeed he was, or she was, to exist at all, did so within the framework of a larger context, a different story, in which they were part of the mosaic but certainly not the whole picture.
- Dickie Moore: [about the war years] Suddenly you had a lot of reality that was really unpleasant that was touching everyone in the country. The fantasy that enabled the era of the child start to exist gave way to the era of reality, in which the child performer if indeed he was, or she was, to exist at all, did so within the framework of a larger context, a different story, in which they were part of the mosaic but certainly not the whole picture.
- Jackie Coogan: In 1922 I was number one box office in the world and the fame and the adoration of the public bestowed on me was rather frightening. At this time I was earning just from motion pictures about $500,000 a year.