Bradley Cooper quotes:

I grew up in a very old-fashioned Roman Catholic, Italian-Irish family in Philly.

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.

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.

I loved the college experience of studying.

I remember being away somewhere, and I had forgotten it was Valentine's Day with a person, and that was very embarrassing.

Being in 'Us Weekly' does not make you famous.

I seriously love to cook... My grandmother was an amazing cook. As a kid I used to help her make handmade pasta, Cavatelli and Ravioli. It was one of my favorite things to do. I love the idea of making whatever is in the fridge into something.

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

Unfortunately, when someone asks me for a favor, I can't say no. Because of my upbringing - my Catholic guilt - if I don't do it, it plagues me.

I was on Facebook. I'm not anymore, but my sister always sends pictures to a page. I'm sure you can find a Bradley Cooper there.

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.

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.

Women are a source of energy in life. I've always wanted to be in a war or baseball movie, but the thought of having no women on set for six months - that's hell. I don't know if it's animalistic or what, but men become like peacocks with their feathers up when women are around.

I have two beautiful dogs that I cherish.

I just wrapped this movie called 'The Wedding Crashers' which was a pretty big break for me.

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

If I like a song, I'll just keep playing it, and it never gets old.

My mother emails me stuff about when she finds a paparazzi photo and they're like, his hair is out of control.

My mother emails me stuff about when she finds a paparazzi photo and theyre like, his hair is out of control.

My hair has been mocked a lot.

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

I worked in restaurants the first half of my life.

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

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.

I think he's Will 's partying a lot in Cabo. I think he's running a brothel. I don't know what he's doing.

I used to work the graveyard shift.

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

I liked sports but I never really had the confidence. I was always coordinated and it came easy to me, but I didn't have the confidence to go along with the physical skill.

I've never heard of a comedy that hasn't had reshoots, especially for the ending of a movie in a comedy.

My parents have been together since 1963, so that's something.

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

I just wrapped this movie called The Wedding Crashers which was a pretty big break for me.

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.

If you look at anything, there are always comedic moments.

When I'm into a woman, I literally can't stop staring. I'm like a little kid. I become completely entranced.

Give me an authentic woman, and I'm happy.

This is what I believe to be true. You have to do everything you can. You have to work your hardest. And if you do, if you stay positive, then you have a shot at a silver lining.

You can't really control how people are going to feel about you; all you can really do is be yourself. Because if you seduce somebody, and you seduce them by pretending to be a certain way, once they are seduced they are going to find that you are not that way. And then you have to maintain an image that's not real, so you really screw yourself. The best is to be yourself and hope they like you.

Every performance is completely its own thing.

Our posture NOW defines our portion later!

I completely fell in love with riding horses. I really didn't want to wear a helmet when I would go off with the trainer on weekends, galloping through forests and stuff. But thank God he made me, because one time, I was going under a tree and my helmet hit a branch. It literally would have taken my head off.

For a comedy to work, magic has to happen.

The only thing I hate are photo shoots. I just hate them. I don't know why I cannot stand them.

Unfortunately, when someone asks me for a favor, I cant say no. Because of my upbringing - my Catholic guilt - if I dont do it, it plagues me.

I've never ridden a hog. I only have sport bikes. But that's basically how I get around L.A. Because traffic is horrendous.

Anything has a rhythm to it, comedy or drama. There has to be a musicality to it. And everybody can't play the same instrument, ideally. But I think that we all have the same comedic tendencies, and that's why it works. We all sort of agree with what's funny.

What gets celebrated gets replicated.

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

When we see Christ for who He is He then tells us who we are.

Our submission defines our authority

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.

I definitely am a huge lover of comedy, and it's only through doing so many comedies that I've realised how much of an influence they've been on me.

I had size 12 feet when I was 10, so I thought I was going to be 6 8. My goal was to be able to dunk a basket. I wound up being 6 1 with size 14 feet. I got the raw end of the deal.

I was pretty as a child and I felt that I wasn't very manly and that plagued me for years.

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

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.

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.

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.