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

Cooper: "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."

Cooper: "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."

Cooper: "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."

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

Cooper: "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."

Cooper: "Don't trust a guy who accuses you of infidelity. He's cheating. He's projecting. If you're living that kind of life, you think everybody else is too."

Cooper: "There's got to be something you want to tell and that's the engine which spurs all of the work you have to do in order to create the story, but you have to love some sort of nugget of what you're telling to be a filmmaker."

Cooper: "I'm so boring."

Cooper: "I think the thought of a traditional family home is awesome. Traditional roles are becoming a thing of the past, but I think there is something really charming about them."

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

Cooper: "If you look at anybody who's had along career, if you look at the choices they've made - even if the movies haven't worked - they've always worked with great filmmakers."

Cooper: "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."

Cooper: "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"

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

Cooper: "This is what I learned at the hospital. You have to do everything you can, you have to work your hardest, and if you do, if you stay positive, you have a shot at a silver lining."

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

Cooper: "There's got to be something you want to tell and that's the engine which spurs all of the work you have to do in order to create the story, but you have to love some sort of nugget of what you're telling to be a filmmaker."

Cooper: "Every performance is completely its own thing."

Cooper: "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."

Cooper: "In a relationship you want to treat people the way you want to be treated."

Cooper: "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."

Cooper: "I'm a crazy cinephile."

Cooper: "To break up with a girl: be direct. You have to behave the way you would want her to behave, and I would want the door to be closed. You have to be sensitive but honest. You have to be a gentleman and do it in person. You have to look her in the eyes."

Cooper: "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."

Cooper: "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."

Cooper: "You can tell if someone's into you. You can feel the chemistry."