Dominic Cooper Quotes

The stunt guys are absolutely brilliant, but all this stuff [a scene] always looks better when you do it yourself.

There are probably only a certain number of people who can understand or tolerate how long a job will take and what demands it puts on you. And why should they? It breeds a strange kind of selfishness immersing yourself in a character for so long.

It's a very, very exciting time, but you can't help thinking or not quite knowing how it's seen from the outside. You're constantly in a state of terror or regret, not quite knowing how things are going to pan out, or whether you've made the right decisions. But, maybe that's just what it's like. Maybe that's just the life of it.

I'm always in awe of directors because they're just holding so much stuff in the air. They've got so many decisions that they need to be making and they have to have the complete overall look of what the piece of artwork is.

Any son of a dictator, I'm sure, has major issues with their relationship with their father.

The people in Iraq lived essentially good lives. They had brilliant health and education systems. Saddam actually created an incredible infrastructure in a very difficult country, but they were a Mafia family. If you said anything against that regime or that family you would be killed instantly.

I need something different [roles], always something just slightly different, that pushes you and challenges you.

In whatever work environment, whether we admit it or not, there is always a little part of us that has been or will be tempted by a lifestyle for the wrong reasons.

I would love an old classic car, or something like that. I'd get something much more subtle than any of those cars. The Lamborghinis were unbelievable to drive and to sit in and to film in. I loved the sensation because I love driving, so I appreciate them for what they are. But, I couldn't go into a showroom and buy something of that expense.

I think skilled salesmen have the ability to work out who you are and pick out aspects of your personality. They almost manipulate you, in a way, to make you buy their product.

One of the exciting and enjoyable aspects of acting is being in the environment with another actor.

I look like a turnip with hair in the morning!

We want to pigeonhole things and people, but it is absurd to regard me just as a furry wig-and-britches actor.

I stupidly ignored education completely. I found it dull and I preferred to cause chaos and have fun. I regret this massively now.

There's this exhausting energy from you getting your lines out and your words right, especially if it's a complicated scene. And as soon as the camera is off you and goes on the other person, you're talking garbled garbage and you feel so sorry for them because you've lost the will to live, after 18 hours of saying those lines. That's terribly unfair. So, I do love the quick-paced nature of it.

I like being in focus, in the moment, changing and adapting and creating and advancing a scene.

I don't think there's ever a point when you turn to yourself and go, 'Yes, I've made a success of this career path.' You never feel like you've done your best work. You always think you could be better.

You must believe in your own instincts and your own instincts at any particular time and believe that they were the right ones for any given situation. So, there's no point ever of kind of regretting something because you can't properly remember the exact circumstances in which you were playing out this particular scene. You have to believe in your intuition and your instinct at that moment.

I've always been astonished by how wonderful he [Timur Bekmambetov] makes something look for so little. I think he shoots action like no one else.

It's funny, I never think I'm doing that well. I've never, ever. I just constantly think, 'This isn't working out.'

You never know what the public is going to respond to or relate to.

When you work with people who are so passionate about their product it's kinda inspiring.

I think you grow up wanting to be a racing driver. Then it dawns on you that it's not going to happen.

Grief jumps out at you when you're least expecting it.

I suppose there's an anger in all of us. Some hidden rage that you keep at bay.

I'm sure everyone feels this way, but it's hard to have a proper opinion of yourself or how things are or how you expected them to be or how far removed they are from how you expect them to be. On the one hand, you're extraordinarily grateful and terribly excited, but on the other, I stop and go, "I wonder what the future does hold."

You should always think about things that excite you and that you can learn from.