“I am a Catholic.” — Jackie Coogan Quote

I am a Catholic.

Pittsburgh, where you once couldn't wear a shirt for more than an hour, is a lot cleaner than Hollywood.

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.

Chaplin was the greatest thing ever to hit motion pictures.

An actor like me hardly ever sees a producer. My agent will say, how about Coogan for the part. The producer will say yes. So you never see the producer.

I went to a Catholic primary school and high school - an all-girls high school - and being queer was never talked about. It was never around me and it wasn't really in the media that I was consuming either.

It's not anti-Catholic to question, nor is it anti-Catholic to be honest about the previous shortcomings of the church, because that is the only way we can ensure its strength and dignity moving forward. It is, however, very Catholic to forgive each other and to never stop loving each other.

One of my first memories is marching with my mom. I was in kindergarten with with the Catholic ladies when Martin Luther King Jr. got shot. We wore the black armbands and marched downtown.

I am excited by the prospects of a Biden presidency for many reasons. One reason is that his Catholic faith, much like President Kennedy's, will embolden him to ask for more from Americans.