Chris Cooper Quotes

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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• At school, I'd refuse to take part in biology lessons when animals were being dissected. One time, the teacher announced that we would be gassing worms. So I ran around the room, gathered up all the worms and set them free in the fields. I just loved animals and couldn't bear the thought of them suffering.

  

  Imelda May
  • Up
  • Time
  • School

• On the Left, the best and brightest go into politics - Barack Obama is the epitome of the perfect leftist. On the Right, the best and brightest go make money. Very few conservatives want to endure all the nonsense you have to put up with to run for office.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Up
  • Money
  • Perfect

• One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good - he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad - he and the world is destroyed.

  

  Maimonides
  • World
  • Good
  • Bad

• I never get scared making these kinds of movies because it's all make-believe, but I did cry when I saw the finished version of Man On Fire because it is so sad.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Believe
  • Man
  • Fire

• I think the Matrix effect is over-used and I don't do it anymore.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Think
  • Effect
  • Matrix

• I feel like I'm a secondary artist, a kind of a conduit for the writer, and if it's a good writer, then I have a great road map.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • Good
  • Great
  • Road

• Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Book
  • Light
  • Wilderness

• I remember at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Shaq always wanted me to show him steps over and over.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Remember
  • Always
  • Olympics

• The ordinary man considers solids and liquids and the energy manifestations of the material world to be vastly different, but the yogi sees them as various vibrations of the one cosmic light.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • World
  • Different
  • Man

• While liberals are leery of religious fundamentalism in general, they consistently imagine that all religions at their core teach the same thing and teach it equally well. This is one of the many delusions borne of political correctness.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Political
  • Religious
  • Same

• My life is just a series of mistakes and regrets of varying degrees.

  

  Ed Weeks
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Mistakes

• Self-expression is always a right, but it's still not there to be abused.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Always
  • Right
  • Still

• I have never had the opportunity to play in England, so I know little about it.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • Opportunity
  • Know
  • Play

• My face changes when I wear make-up; I don't recognise myself.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Changes

• You cannot get an A if you're afraid of getting an F.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • You
  • Afraid
  • Getting

• First of all, I've been having a wonderful run of luck with cover albums, songs I didn't write. I had five pop cover albums and two Christmas albums, and they were all very successful.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • Successful
  • Christmas
  • Luck

• Every actor has to love and loathe the character he plays.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Character
  • Actor
  • Plays

• Tagliatelle comes from the word tagliare, meaning 'to cut.' Tagliolini are simply thinly cut tagliatelle.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Word
  • Meaning
  • Cut

• A big, studly football jock like me? I got plenty of blood to spare. For you, I have anything to spare.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Football
  • Blood
  • Jocks

• Everything for me is sacred, beginning with earth, but also going to things made by man.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • Earth
  • Beginning

• Nowadays I'm more interested in what you'd call 'alternative.' Lately we've been listening to a lot of Mumford & Sons, and Jenny Owen Youngs. I'm also pretty crazy about the Kings of Convenience, a Norwegian band that's been compared to Simon and Garfunkel.

  

  Jennifer Egan
  • Pretty
  • Crazy
  • Band

• For me anyway when a photograph is interesting, it's interesting because of the kind of photographic problem it states - which has to do with the contest between content and form.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Interesting
  • Kind
  • Problem

• For Scripture is the school of the Holy Spirit, in which, as nothing is omitted that is both necessary and useful to know, so nothing is taught but what is expedient to know. Therefore we must guard against depriving believers of anything disclosed about predestination in Scripture, lest we seem either wickedly to defraud them of the blessing of their God or to accuse and scoff at the Holy Spirit for having published what it is in any way profitable to suppress.

  

  John Calvin
  • School
  • Blessing
  • Scripture

• 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