Chris Cooper Quotes

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.

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• My favorite wrestler growing up was Dean Malenko. He was a very technical wrestler, and when I trained with Shawn Michaels, he wasn't that kind of a technical wrestler. So, when I finally met Regal in 2001, he was that kind of a wrestler, and all of a sudden, I could ask him things, and he would know what I was talking about and how to do it.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Know

• When I listen to a song, I don't say, 'Oh my gosh, that vocal line she sang was the best thing I ever heard.' I'm thinking, 'That lyric just moves me. That lyric just said what I feel better than I could say it myself.'

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Thinking
  • She
  • Song

• You reach a point where you don't work for money.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Work
  • Money
  • You

• I can tell you Donald Trump's products may not be made in America, but Donald Trump was made in America.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • May
  • America
  • You

• At the U.N., I routinely encounter countries that do not want to impose sanctions or even to enforce those already on the books. The hard-line sanctions skeptics have their own self-interested reasons for opposing sanctions, but they ground their opposition in claims that America uses sanctions to inflict punishment for punishment's sake.

  

  Samantha Power
  • America
  • Want
  • Punishment

• Custom reconciles us to everything.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Everything
  • U.S.
  • Custom

• Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Music
  • American
  • Name

• There is no easy path leading out of life, and few easy ones that lie within it.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Life
  • Path
  • Lie

• I have always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Important
  • Failure
  • New

• But it's fun to be something, have that, and you don't have to be real. It's like, comedians. They go on and they're doing all these jokes. I would be like that if I were more awake.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Real
  • Fun
  • You

• It's not the time to look for excuses.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Time
  • Look
  • Excuses

• I've always wanted to walk the whole of the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, which winds 184.5 miles from Georgetown to Cumberland, Maryland.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Always
  • Walk
  • Winds

• The more closely you get in touch with your dreams, the more able you are to make them real. The more vividly you consider how you want your world to be, the more real and effective tools you will have for making it so.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • World
  • Real
  • Dreams

• I had skate wing in London. I had mine grilled with lemon and herbs, and it was the perfect seasoning for that fish.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Perfect
  • London
  • Fish

• I still care a lot about my personal style, and since moving to New York and having a little more control over my own money, I've been able to make my 12-year-old fashion nerd dream comes true.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Money
  • True
  • Dream

• I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Political
  • Politics
  • Agenda

• It's like trying to describe what you feel when you're standing on the rim of the Grand Canyon or remembering your first love or the birth of your child. You have to be there to really know what it's like.

  

  Jack Schmitt
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Child

• Being in jail, it's humbled me in a way I never imagined.

  

  Foxy Brown
  • Me
  • Never
  • Jail

• I don't really go out partying, but I'm definitely a social butterfly.

  

  Eliza Doolittle
  • Butterfly

• Don't we realise that the student of today is the executive of tomorrow?

  

  Anthony Carmona
  • Today

• To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Man
  • Mean
  • Door

• If you believe that men and women have equal rights, if someone asks if you're feminist, you have to say yes because that is how words work.

  

  Aziz Ansari
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Men

• In the women's world, as well as in the men's world, there exists the class law and the class struggle, and it appears as fully established that sometimes between the socialist working women and those belonging to the middle class, there may be antagonisms.

  

  Clara Zetkin
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• 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