Chris Cooper Quotes

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• You don't throw away a whole life just because it's banged up a little.
• 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…
• 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…
• Frankly, my politics are pretty left of left
• 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…
• 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.
• It's not the size of the hard drive that counts, it's how you download it.
• I like a very dry wit, not the big kind of humor like Robin Williams. I don't think I'm capable of that.
• 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…
• 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…
• I don't want to go bald, I don't know what's coming up next.
• I suspect that a lot of studio executives still think of me as 'what's-his-name'.
• I'm thrilled with my body of work.
• 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…
• I've got research, I have my own life experience I can apply, and I have my imagination.
• 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…

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