Chris Cooper Quotes

• When I feel like I'm doing my best work, there is a bit of a freedom, a bit of flight that you're not so much losing yourself but you're sort of in the zone.

  Chris Cooper

  Losing, Flight, Best Work

  "Chris Cooper, Filling the Key Role in "Breach". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. February 15, 2007.

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• You don't throw away a whole life just because it's banged up a little.

  Chris Cooper

  Death, Dying, Littles

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• I had a couple come in with a negative amortization mortgage on a house that costs way too much relative to their income. They're consuming real estate, not investing in it.

  Chris Cooper

  Couple, Real, House

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• You must survive with grace. You must do so gallantly. How archaic these terms seem to us in our modern world. There is little grace or gallantry in commerce or politics and not much in art.

  Chris Cooper

  Art, Grace, World

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• It's not the size of the hard drive that counts, it's how you download it.

  Chris Cooper

  Size, Computer, Downloads

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• I don't want to go bald, I don't know what's coming up next.

  Chris Cooper

  Want, Next, Knows

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• I suspect that a lot of studio executives still think of me as 'what's-his-name'.

  Chris Cooper

  Thinking, Names, Think Of Me

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• I'm thrilled with my body of work.

  Chris Cooper

  Body

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• I've been around horses, but I certainly wouldn't call myself a horseman by any means. It's a combination of being very aware of them, and not trusting them.

  Chris Cooper

  Horse, Mean, Combination

  "Seabiscuit Interviews: Chris Cooper". Interview with Staci Layne Wilson, www.horse-races.net. July 15, 2003.

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• You look at a herd of cattle and well, they all look the same... but they know. They all have an individual personality, and those personalities change from day to day. They can have their grumpy days and their happy days and their serene days. But it's unpredictable. You can't be off in outer space when you're dealing with animals.

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  Animal, Space, Personality

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• I like a very dry wit, not the big kind of humor like Robin Williams. I don't think I'm capable of that.

  Chris Cooper

  Thinking, Robins, Dry

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• You jot down ideas, memories, whatever, concerning your real life that somehow parallels the character you're playing, and you incorporate that in your scene work.

  Chris Cooper

  Memories, Real, Character

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• Well, all I can say is thank goodness I had 15 years of theater before ever I did film roles. You build technique that you can rely on

  Chris Cooper

  Thank You, Years, Technique

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• Frankly, my politics are pretty left of left

  Chris Cooper

  Left

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• As a rule it usually takes three or four readings for me to be interested in a script, and if I'm interested I'll read it three or four times before I make a strong decision

  Chris Cooper

  Strong, Reading, Decision

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• I've got research, I have my own life experience I can apply, and I have my imagination.

  Chris Cooper

  Imagination, Research, Life Experience

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