Chris Cooper Quotes & Sayings

#1. 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.

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#2. The inhibition of an inhibitor leads to the activation of an inhibitor of an inhibitory pathway. This is the point where most people might be tempted to give up on biochemistry!

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#3. 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.

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#4. 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.

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#5. 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.

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

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

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#8. Frankly, my politics are pretty left of left.

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

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#10. 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.

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#11. 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.

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