Chris Cooper
Chris Cooper
Christopher Walton "Chris" Cooperis an American film actor. He became well known in the late 1980s. He has appeared in supporting performances in several major Hollywood films, including the drama American Beauty, the biopic about a NASA engineer titled October Sky, the action spy film The Bourne Identity, the biographical sports psychological-drama thriller film Seabiscuit, the biographical film about Truman Capote, Capote, the geopolitical thriller Syriana, the action-thriller The Kingdom, the crime drama The Town, and the musical comedy film...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth9 July 1951
CityKansas City, MO
CountryUnited States of America
I've got research, I have my own life experience I can apply, and I have my imagination.
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
Frankly, my politics are pretty left of left
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
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.
It's not the size of the hard drive that counts, it's how you download it.
I like a very dry wit, not the big kind of humor like Robin Williams. I don't think I'm capable of that.
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 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.
I suspect that a lot of studio executives still think of me as 'what's-his-name'.
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.
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.