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Dominic Cooper Quotes

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.

– Dominic Cooper

To a certain extent I suppose all actors are big kids.

– Dominic Cooper

I have always worked from that place, that if you are going to inhabit someone and get under their eyes, you need to have empathy.

– Dominic Cooper

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

– Dominic Cooper

I have a very easy life, I can wander around.

– Dominic Cooper

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

– Dominic Cooper

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

– Dominic Cooper

I had a really creative teacher at primary school. He used to get us doing things such as singing Spandau Ballet in drag in the choir, and I remember loving it.

– Dominic Cooper

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

– Dominic Cooper

Nobody should expect an actor to have these wonderful ideas and concepts about the world: they pretend to be other people for a living.

– Dominic Cooper

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.

– Dominic Cooper

People are earning their living as ‘celebrities’ without actually doing anything.

– Dominic Cooper

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

– Dominic Cooper

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.

– Dominic Cooper

It’s a good feeling to come away from a day’s work feeling like you’ve achieved something. Tired brain is good.

– Dominic Cooper

There is nothing I hate more than meeting someone who has forgotten the art of conversing.

– Dominic Cooper

You never know really what anyone thinks about you – that’s why all my closest friends are ones I’ve had since my schooling days when I was 5. And I surround myself with people who I trust and who know me.

– Dominic Cooper

Yes, I want children and I can’t wait to have that closeness with someone – to bring someone into the world. But, I really don’t know when.

– Dominic Cooper

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

– Dominic Cooper

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.

– Dominic Cooper

There’s only so much you can do of trying, finding yourself very close to getting a part and then not getting it.

– Dominic Cooper

I’m not going to pre-empt anything regarding how my career’s going to go because I’m always prepared for the worst.

– Dominic Cooper

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.

– Dominic Cooper

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

– Dominic Cooper

It happens very rarely that your ears perk up about a certain project.

– Dominic Cooper

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

– Dominic Cooper