Chris Cooper movie quotes

“Every horse is good for something.”
Chris Cooper - Tom Smith

“This is not Rambo time.”

Chris Cooper - Lieutenant Colonel Kazinski

“- Douglas: Will you keep out all the sadness?
- Max: I have a sadness shield that keeps out all the sadness, and it's big enough for all of us.”
Chris Cooper - Douglas
Max Records - Max

“- Bob Cody: You know, we still have a contract, Mr. Oliver. Sure hope you're not thinking about breaking that contract.
- Neal Oliver: Thinking about it? Yes. Doing it? No, sir.
- Bob Cody: That's a very honest response. That's a breath of fresh air.”
Chris Cooper - Bob Cody
James Marsden - Neal Oliver

“- Sam: Well, I'm working on a few things. I'm going over to the other side.
- Ray: Republicans?
- Sam: No, Mexico.”
Chris Cooper - Sam
Tony Plana - Ray

“Mr. Wombosi was supposed to be dead three weeks ago. He was supposed to have died in a way where the only possible explanation was that he'd been murdered by a member of his own entourage. I don't send you to kill. I send you to be invisible. I send you because you don't exist.”

Chris Cooper - Conklin

“- Colonel Frank Fitts: Your wife is with another man and you don't care?
- Lester Burnham: Nope. Our marriage is just for show. A commercial for how normal we are when we're anything but.”
Chris Cooper - Colonel Fitts
Kevin Spacey - Lester Burnham

“You're asking me a direct question? I thought you never were going to do that. You never wanted to before.”

Chris Cooper - Conklin

“- Neal Oliver: Well, I'm going to Danver. I wouldn't mind making some money.
- Bob Cody: Good. I'm going to Renburg. It's on your way. Here's my proposition. You pay for gas, pay for your meals. No alcohol while you're on payroll. I pick the radio stations. I initiate all conversations. I'll pay you $10 cash every hour, and the mileage money...” (continue)(continue reading)
Chris Cooper - Neal Oliver
James Marsden - Bob Cody

“I don't drive, and I don't like to hitchhike. When I hitchhike I'm at the mercy of the driver. But when I pay for the ride, I'm the employer and I call the shots. That's how I like it.”
Chris Cooper - Bob Cody

“- Lee Harvey: Is your old lady happy?
- Lieutenant Gerke: Is my old lady happy?
- Lee Harvey: Yeah, because if your fuckin' is anything like your police work then you couldn't hit the G-spot on a twelve pound pussy.”
Mongo Brownlee - Lee Harvey
Chris Cooper - Lieutenant Gerke

“About a hundred years ago he came up with a theory about the frontier. He said the frontier was a safety valve for civilization, a place for people to go to keep from goin' mad. So, whenever there were folks who couldn't fit in with the way things were, nuts, and malcontents, and extremists, they'd pack up and head for the frontier. That's how...” (continue)(continue reading)

Chris Cooper - Bob Cody

“- Sam: Great place for a business.
- Wesley Birdsong: Do you see much competiton around?”

Chris Cooper - Sam
Gordon Tootoosis - Wesley Birdsong

“If I met you for the first time today, I'd still want to be with you.”

Chris Cooper - Sam

“Fellas, we're in a hole full of coal gas here. The tiniest spark at the wrong time is going to be the end of us. So we got to pick away at this situation, slow and careful. We got to organize and build support. We got to work together. Together! Till they can't get their coal out of the ground without us cause we're a union! Cause we're the...” (continue)(continue reading)

Chris Cooper - Joe Kenehan

“- Jason Bourne: Who am I?
- Conklin: You're U.S. Government property. You're a malfunctioning $30 million weapon. You're a total goddamn catastrophe, and by God, if it kills me, you're going to tell me how this happened.”
Matt Damon - Jason Bourne
Chris Cooper - Conklin

“What's so wonderful is that every one of these flowers has a specific relationship with the insect that pollinates it. There's a certain orchid look exactly like a certain insect so the insect is drawn to this flower, its double, its soul mate, and wants nothing more than to make love to it. And after the insect flies off, spots another...” (continue)(continue reading)
Chris Cooper - John Laroche

“This is not a drill, soldier. We clear on that? This is a live project. You are go. Training is over. Training is over.”
Chris Cooper - Conklin

“- Chucho Montoya: A bird flying south, you think he sees this line? Rattlesnake? Javelina? Whatever you got. You think halfway across that line they start thinking different? Why should a man?
- Sam: Your government's always been pretty happy to have that line, the question's just been where to draw it.
- Chucho Montoya: My government can go...” (continue)(continue reading)
Tony Amendola - Chucho Montoya
Chris Cooper - Sam

“I'm just a jailer. I run a 60 room hotel with bars on the windows.”
Chris Cooper - Sam

“- July Johnson: It was my fault! Hell, you told me to stay.
- Augustus 'Gus' McCrae: I know I did, son. And I'm sure you wished you had. But yesterday's gone, we can't get it back. Now you go on with your digging.”

Chris Cooper - July Johnson
Robert Duvall - Augustus 'Gus' McCrae

“- John: Listen to me, you drunken son of a bitch. If that boy's father were still alive, he'd kick your ass. So I'm gonna have to do it for him. If I see him with a bruise... you get a scar. If I see him with a limp... you get crutches! Do you hear me? Do you hear me?
- Vernon: I'm reportin' you to the union!
- John: Screw you and your damn union.”

Chris Cooper - John Hickam
Mark Jeffrey Miller - Vernon

“You think this man is the enemy? This is a worker! Any union keeps this man out ain't a union, it's a goddam club! They got you fightin' white against colored, native against foreign, hollow against hollow, when you know there ain't but two sides in this world - them that work and them that don't. You work, they don't. That's all you get to know...” (continue)(continue reading)
Chris Cooper - Joe Kenehan