Chris Cooper Quotes (28 Quotes)

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

I don't know if we've ever been this inexperienced. We're going to have to be a team that executes well and manufactures runs, and play smart baseball.

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

The real problem in the process isn't that these costs soared out of control, but that they were grossly underestimated from the beginning.

The real story with this bill is that you had a tragedy occur that disrupted refiners and laid bare that the U.S. is dependent on this consolidated industry and, in a couple weeks, the industry was able to get a bill in the House and get the Congress to actually vote for it,

This mix of assets is more volatile than the SP 500 and yet their average returns are in line with the SP 500, ... They could easily put some of this money into an SP 500 index fund and have the same average returns over time, with less risk and volatility.

The DOT wants to work with all of our communities and has no intention of trying to hurt anything that is as important to the state as that tennis tournament.

Make your list and check it twice.

It shows how much Congress is in the pocket of the oil industry.

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.

Unfortunately, when a violation is brought to our attention, state law does not provide flexibility,

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 it's unpredictable. You can't be off in outer space when you're dealing with animals.

We're drawing up a plan that will fix it. But for now, we're staying on top of it with sand and salt.

Women earn 1-trillion a year.

Frankly, my politics are pretty left of left.

The DOT has provided the city with information on how to legally apply for those signs to be posted to promote the Pilot Pen,

The goal, he stressed, is to strategize, not gamble with her money. She'll have to work to 65 to make this work, ... Being aggressive with her investments is not the solution.

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.

I'm thrilled with my body of work.

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.

It was such a success that our users wouldn't let us give it back to SOS until we had our own system in place.

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

There were a variety of issues relating to the Q-bridge in regards to the design of it and the negotiations of the ancillary projects in the immediate area. But once we all got in the room together there was nothing that didn't get resolved.

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.

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.

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.

In the past, anytime we were awarded a contract, it would take 30 to 90 days to get phone service to the new site. Even when we got the phone service up and running, paper-based information still had to be sent by express delivery or fax between remote offices and headquarters daily.

I like a very dry wit, not the big kind of humor like Robin Williams. I don't think I'm capable of that.