Chris Cooper movie quotes

“Hud saw something in you that you don't even see in yourself.”

Chris Cooper - Smokey

“Say what you mean, mean what you say. You know that if everybody followed that rule, there'd be a lot less trouble?”
Chris Cooper - Bob Cody

“- Woman on radio: The choice is clear. The Arion 620, the American-made car for American-made drivers.
- Bob Cody: That's a lie. Arion engines are made in Japan.
- Man on radio: Kill Signal, the movie everyone's talking about, from Weber Films.
- Bob Cody: That's another lie. We're not talking about it.
- Another man on radio: We're the U.S....” (continue)(continue reading)

Chris Cooper - Bob Cody

“I got a little girl. Somebody rapes her, he's a dead dog. I'll blow him away just like Carl Lee did.”
Chris Cooper - Deputy Dwayne Powell Looney

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

“- Chief Figgis: If you're going to kill him, be man enough to pull the trigger. Ain't no pride in having other people do what you're too weak to do yourself.
- Joe Coughlin: Okay. In my experience doesn't take much to pull the trigger.”
Chris Cooper - Chief Figgis
Ben Affleck - Joe Coughlin

“You'll never be as fast as Storm, but you can be smarter than him.”

Chris Cooper - Smokey

“You can't turn back the clock, kid. But you can wind it up again.”
Chris Cooper - Smokey

“- Neal Oliver: What about space? You know, the final frontier!
- Bob Cody: Ah, Star Trek isn't space. That's television - fine fuckin' frontier that is. Besides, how many folks can just pack up and go to space?”
James Marsden - Neal Oliver
Chris Cooper - Bob Cody

“It doesn't really matter the judgement of other men. I know what I've done.”
Chris Cooper - Robert Hanssen

“Some people say we have the frontier of the mind, and they go off and explore the wonderful world of alcohol and drugs, but that's no frontier. It's just another way for us to fool ourselves. And we've created this phony frontier with computers, which allows people to, you know, think they've escaped. A frontier with access fees?”
Chris Cooper - Bob Cody

“I've got a kid in college and another one going in the fall. I won't go back to the factory floor.”
Chris Cooper - Phil Woodward

“Can't trust a woman in a pants suit. Men wear the pants. The world doesn't need anymore Hillary Clintons.”
Chris Cooper - Robert Hanssen

“By simply doing what they're designed to do, something large and magnificent happens. In this sense they show us how to live, how the only barometer you have is your heart. How, when you spot your flower, you can't let anything get in your way.”

Chris Cooper - John Laroche

“You know why the Soviet empire fell? Godlessness.”
Chris Cooper - Robert Hanssen

“- John: I'm not gonna crawl on my belly in front of those miserable union rats.
- Elsie: Is that what this is about? Is this about your pride?
- John: It's about what's best for Coalwood. If this mine doesn't produce, then the town dies. Think the union gives a damn about that? They're nothin' but a bunch of greedy sons of bitches.”
Chris Cooper - John Hickam
Natalie Canerday - Elsie Hickam

“The world didn't stop. The newspaper still came every morning, the automatic sprinklers went off at six. Jerry next door still washed his car every Sunday. My life ended and nobody noticed.”

Chris Cooper - Phil Woodward

“Frankly, my politics are pretty left of left.”
Chris Cooper

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

“- Col. Harry Burwell: This is not a war for the independence of one or two colonies, but for the independence of one nation.
- Capt. Wilkins: Tell me, Colonel, what nation is that?
- Peter Howard: An American nation!”
Chris Cooper - Col. Harry Burwell
Adam Baldwin - Capt. Wilkins
Joey D. Vieira - Peter Howard

“- Colonel Frank Fitts: I'd rather you were dead than be a fuckin' faggot.
- Ricky Fitts: You're right. I suck dick for money.
- Colonel Frank Fitts: Boy, don't start.
- Ricky Fitts: Two thousand dollars - I'm that good.
- Colonel Frank Fitts: Get out!
- Ricky Fitts: And you should see me fuck. I'm the best piece of ass in three States.
- Colonel...” (continue)(continue reading)
Chris Cooper - Colonel Fitts
Wes Bentley - Ricky Fitts

“Boy, you mix drinks as bad as you mix metaphors, you'd be out of a job.”

Chris Cooper - Sam

“The perks go to the guys who play the game, the ones who politics.”
Chris Cooper - Robert Hanssen

“- Jason Bourne: I don't want to do this anymore.
- Conklin: I don't think that's a decision you can make.”

Matt Damon - Jason Bourne
Chris Cooper - Conklin

“Neither the flower nor the insect will ever understand the significance of their lovemaking. I mean, how could they know that because of their little dance the world lives? But it does.”
Chris Cooper - John Laroche