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 like a very dry wit, not the big kind of humor like Robin Williams. I don't think I'm capable of that.
It's not the size of the hard drive that counts, it's how you download it.
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
Frankly, my politics are pretty left of left
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 got research, I have my own life experience I can apply, and I have my imagination.
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,