Bradley Cooper Quotes

There are certain actors you watch in a movie, and you think, 'Wow, that guy is very skilled.'

I don't know if it's animalistic or what, but men become like peacocks with their feathers up when women are around.

I think if you live in a black-and-white world, you're gonna suffer a lot. I used to be like that. But I don't believe that anymore.

I never lived the life of 'Oh, you're so good-looking'. People thought I was a girl when I was little, because I looked like a girl-maybe because my mother would keep my hair really long in a bowl cut. I was in a coffee shop once and the waitress was like, 'What do you want, Miss?' I was 10 or 11-the worst age to have that happen. I had a jean jacket on and a Metallica pin. I thought I was really cool.

When I was a kid, I was always mistaken for a girl.

I had size 12 feet when I was 10, so I thought I was going to be 6 8. My goal was to be able to dunk a basket. I wound up being 6 1 with size 14 feet. I got the raw end of the deal.

I loved the college experience of studying.

What gets celebrated gets replicated.

It's too hard to make a movie if you don't care about what happens to it, or even what the product is. I can't even imagine that. It's not worth the time and effort if you don't care about the product.

Give me an authentic woman, and I'm happy.

Life's complicated and people do things for a lot of reasons.

I just wrapped this movie called 'The Wedding Crashers' which was a pretty big break for me.

I think he's Will 's partying a lot in Cabo. I think he's running a brothel. I don't know what he's doing.

You can't really control how people are going to feel about you; all you can really do is be yourself. Because if you seduce somebody, and you seduce them by pretending to be a certain way, once they are seduced they are going to find that you are not that way. And then you have to maintain an image that's not real, so you really screw yourself. The best is to be yourself and hope they like you.

I liked sports but I never really had the confidence. I was always coordinated and it came easy to me, but I didn't have the confidence to go along with the physical skill.

Personally, I've made myself a very small window of what I enjoy in this business, which is I love being a big part of the storytelling process.

If you could change the neural pathways in your brain so that you could recall everything you've ever heard, taste, smelled or touched, basically from the womb on, and use it at your disposal, that's an interesting concept.

My mother emails me stuff about when she finds a paparazzi photo and they're like, his hair is out of control.

If I like a song, I'll just keep playing it, and it never gets old.

I was pretty as a child and I felt that I wasn't very manly and that plagued me for years.

God opposes the proud. The way you get up front is do really good work in the back. Humility is a by product of spending time with Jesus - it is not a reflection of yourself

I always sort of talk about - to myself at least, or to my friends, about wanting to just keep life very simple. I've found it most simple here in New York. You know, it's basically I have a, in a way, a 9-to-5 job, you know? I do eight shows a week. I live in New York City. I get to walk everywhere, and you know, just be one of the people of the city. And it's actually wonderful.

Unfortunately, when someone asks me for a favor, I can't say no. Because of my upbringing - my Catholic guilt - if I don't do it, it plagues me.

I seriously love to cook ... My grandmother was an amazing cook. As a kid I used to help her make handmade pasta, Cavatelli and Ravioli. It was one of my favorite things to do. I love the idea of making whatever is in the fridge into something.

I want to work with great filmmakers and great actors and get better as an actor.

I've never heard of a comedy that hasn't had reshoots, especially for the ending of a movie in a comedy.

If you're a single man and you happen to be in this business, you're deemed a player. But I don't see myself as a ladies' man.

It's beyond my control who's going to cast me or how you're going to pigeonholed, so for me, it's just I want to keep doing different things because I want to get better, so hopefully I'll be hired to do them.

I think I'm a decent-looking guy. Sometimes I can look great, and other times I look horrifying.

When we see Christ for who He is He then tells us who we are.

I remember being away somewhere, and I had forgotten it was Valentine's Day with a person, and that was very embarrassing.

Some directors have just one way of working; you either have to adhere to it or you don't.

Our submission defines our authority

My hair has been mocked a lot.

I'm a crazy cinephile.

I think testing films are a great tool. And I think showing them to people that you value their opinion is important, but once you give over to what reviewers think, that's tricky. You don't know what their agenda is; it's so subjective. You have got to make sure you are asking someone's opinion who you know.

Anything has a rhythm to it, comedy or drama. There has to be a musicality to it. And everybody can't play the same instrument, ideally. But I think that we all have the same comedic tendencies, and that's why it works. We all sort of agree with what's funny.

If you look at anything, there are always comedic moments.

Comedy is music.