Chris Cooper Quotations

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.

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

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.

Frankly, my politics are pretty left of left

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

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

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

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

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

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

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's not the size of the hard drive that counts, it's how you download it.

You must survive with grace. You must do so gallantly. How archaic these terms seem to us in our modern world. There is little grace or gallantry in commerce or politics and not much in art.

I'm thrilled with my body of work.

You don't throw away a whole life just because it's banged up a little.

I think what's more interesting is the 6 percent increase in monthly passes.

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

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

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,

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

We've certainly done better when we get a lead for our pitchers. It seems like if we don't have some early success we've struggled more. It's helped out all around.

First, we considered hybrid systems, but we found that many of those vendors were simply trying to put an IP mask over an analog system.

It would be like getting off at a rest stop.

Our decline rate is almost double that of the national rate. We've got 150 construction projects per year, mostly for capacity and safety.

So, their operation is on their property. We do not have any statutory jurisdiction over anything they may be engaged in.

They seem to be spending every dime they take in.

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

This is what happens with any other piece of infrastructure. As it gets older, things happen that we need to deal with.

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.

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

Everyone defines (living within your means) differently because everybody's propensity to take risk is different.

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 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 don't see the problems they are claiming.

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.

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