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
  • Know
  • Growing

• 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

• 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 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

• Jesus is the movement for social justice, and the movement for social justice is Jesus in the present.

  

  Karl Barth
  • Present
  • Jesus
  • Justice

• The liberal paradigm of regulation and license has led to a society where an 18-year-old girl has the right to public fornication in a pornographic movie - but only if she is paid the minimum wage.

  

  Irving Kristol
  • She
  • Movie
  • Society

• A republic cannot succeed, till it contains a certain body of men imbued with the principles of justice and honour.

  

  Charles Darwin
  • Men
  • Justice

• I work quite diligently and wish that I were better and smarter. And these both are one and the same.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Work
  • Wish

• I'm looking forward to, as an actor, having to do some stuff that's out of my comfort zone. It makes for interesting work and when you're uncomfortable doing something; then it's going to be interesting when they film it.

  

  Ansel Elgort
  • Work
  • Interesting

• Rather than just mimic processes in nature, I think we can harness the powers of nature itself and allow it to help us create. That, in a way is what the 'Dune' project is all about.

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • Help
  • Think
  • Nature

• Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Kind
  • Racing
  • Birds

• A gentleman, is a rarer thing than some of us think for. Which of us can point out many such in his circle--men whose aims are generous, whose truth is constant and elevated; who can look the world honestly in the face, with an equal manly sympathy for the great and the small? We all know a hundred whose coats are well made, and a score who have excellent manners; but of gentlemen how many? Let us take a little scrap of paper, and each make out his list.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Gentleman

• 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