Quotes by Chris Cooper

About Chris Cooper:

Christopher W. "Chris" Cooper is an American film actor. He became well known in the late 1980s. He has appeared in supporting performances in several major Hollywood films, including the drama American Beauty (1999), the biopic about a NASA engineer titled October Sky (1999), the action spy film The Bourne Identity (2002), the biographical sports psychological-drama thriller film Seabiscuit (2003), the biographical film about Truman Capote, Capote (2005), the geopolitical thriller Syriana (2005), the action-thriller The Kingdom (2007), the crime drama The Town (2010), and the musical comedy film The Muppets (2011).
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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!

Chris Cooper

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

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

Chris Cooper

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 i...

Chris Cooper

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

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

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

Chris Cooper

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

Chris Cooper

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

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

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

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

Frankly, my politics are pretty left of left.

Chris Cooper

I'm thrilled with my body of work.

Chris Cooper

Author Bio

  • NameChris Cooper
  • DescriptionAmerican film actor
  • AliasesChristopher W. "Chris" Cooper; Christopher W. Cooper
  • BornJuly 9, 1951
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionFilm Actor; Actor
  • AwardsAcademy Award For Best Supporting Actor