Top 48 Dominic Cooper Quotes
#1. I like playing off strong actors, whether it's Benedict Cumberbatch or Dominic Cooper. Also I'm a hopeless romantic, so I'm fascinated by relationships.
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#2. I have always worked from that place, that if you are going to inhabit someone and get under their eyes, you need to have empathy.
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#3. One of the exciting and enjoyable aspects of acting is being in the environment with another actor.
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#4. I need something different [roles], always something just slightly different, that pushes you and challenges you.
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#6. You want to know if anyone's going to go see your film. You shouldn't worry about it or get hung up on it. So yea, you kind of monitor it.
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#7. It happens very rarely that your ears perk up about a certain project.
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#8. There's only so much you can do of trying, finding yourself very close to getting a part and then not getting it.
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#9. You never know really what anyone thinks about you - that's why all my closest friends are ones I've had since my schooling days when I was 5. And I surround myself with people who I trust and who know me.
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#10. It's funny how you have to keep changing, or showing that you are capable of doing something different from people's expectations. People really only do remember you from the last thing you've done, or desperately want to put you into a position that they think you're capable of.
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#11. I think skilled salesmen have the ability to work out who you are and pick out aspects of your personality. They almost manipulate you, in a way, to make you buy their product.
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#12. Especially with comedy, you take massive risks because ultimately you're trying to be funny. If you're not funny, then it's really embarrassing and you look stupid.
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#13. I don't think there's ever a point when you turn to yourself and go, 'Yes, I've made a success of this career path.' You never feel like you've done your best work. You always think you could be better.
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#14. It's funny, I never think I'm doing that well. I've never, ever. I just constantly think, 'This isn't working out.'
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#15. The people in Iraq lived essentially good lives. They had brilliant health and education systems. Saddam actually created an incredible infrastructure in a very difficult country, but they were a Mafia family. If you said anything against that regime or that family you would be killed instantly.
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#16. I grew up loving cars. It was completely and utterly, without a doubt, my childhood dream. Whether your childhood dream progresses or changes, you turn into a man and you probably shouldn't still have that same dream.
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#17. Nobody should expect an actor to have these wonderful ideas and concepts about the world: they pretend to be other people for a living.
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#18. I like being in focus, in the moment, changing and adapting and creating and advancing a scene.
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#19. I think women are great drivers. To be honest, I've only been in one car accident - one of my best friends, his wife was driving. She went into oncoming traffic, our car flipped almost four times. I didn't even have time to put on a seat belt, because they'd just picked me up.
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#21. Of course you can find something exciting and dynamic in any character you want to portray.
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#22. I remember, as a young man, wanting to experience a car going at those speeds and being visually nourished by something which I loved so much. And I wanted to race fast cars and have a good time.
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#23. You should always think about things that excite you and that you can learn from.
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#24. I'm always in awe of directors because they're just holding so much stuff in the air. They've got so many decisions that they need to be making and they have to have the complete overall look of what the piece of artwork is.
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#25. I kept on digging the hole deeper and deeper looking for the treasure chest until I finally lifted my head, looked up and realized that I had dug my own grave.
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#26. I'm not going to pre-empt anything regarding how my career's going to go because I'm always prepared for the worst.
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#27. There are probably only a certain number of people who can understand or tolerate how long a job will take and what demands it puts on you. And why should they? It breeds a strange kind of selfishness immersing yourself in a character for so long.
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#28. I had a really creative teacher at primary school. He used to get us doing things such as singing Spandau Ballet in drag in the choir, and I remember loving it.
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#30. I would like to do any way possible that Howard Stark can make a return. He's such a fun character to play, and I really believe that he could make quite an exciting character to watch more of. The flawed entrepreneur, the kind of crazy playboy, from that era is an exciting concept.
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#31. I think you grow up wanting to be a racing driver. Then it dawns on you that it's not going to happen.
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#32. I stupidly ignored education completely. I found it dull and I preferred to cause chaos and have fun. I regret this massively now.
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#33. In whatever work environment, whether we admit it or not, there is always a little part of us that has been or will be tempted by a lifestyle for the wrong reasons.
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#34. It's a good feeling to come away from a day's work feeling like you've achieved something. Tired brain is good.
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#35. There is nothing I hate more than meeting someone who has forgotten the art of conversing.
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#36. You never know what the public is going to respond to or relate to.
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#37. To a certain extent I suppose all actors are big kids.
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#38. When you work with people who are so passionate about their product it's kinda inspiring.
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#39. Any son of a dictator, I'm sure, has major issues with their relationship with their father.
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#40. Grief jumps out at you when you're least expecting it.
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#41. I've always been astonished by how wonderful he [Timur Bekmambetov] makes something look for so little. I think he shoots action like no one else.
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#42. For the three years I was in school training to be an actor, I was told, 'It's very unlikely you'll work at all on the stage or in film', so I feel I have to take all the opportunities I can.
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#43. I suppose there's an anger in all of us. Some hidden rage that you keep at bay.
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#44. Yes, I want children and I can't wait to have that closeness with someone - to bring someone into the world. But, I really don't know when.
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#46. The stunt guys are absolutely brilliant, but all this stuff [a scene] always looks better when you do it yourself.
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#47. People are earning their living as 'celebrities' without actually doing anything.
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#48. We want to pigeonhole things and people, but it is absurd to regard me just as a furry wig-and-britches actor.
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