Martin Cooper Quotes

My mail address is open for anyone, and I read all my mails by myself.

I don't know, I feel like any role that I play is a little piece of me, whether it's their perspective, maybe how they dress, what they think is funny, their loyalty to their friends. It all stems from Kiersey.

… people never become a mass, they remain entities, and so you are able to feel human suffering and make others feel it because it is represented to you by individuals

'Peeples' is definitely not 'Meet the Parents'. It's more a movie about family secrets. It does explore class issues somewhat, but it's mostly about living your own truth.

'CSI' is a part of who I am.

I'm actually beginning to believe that there is something in common among all of my characters. I'm not sure what it is exactly. But I guess that something is me.

We do become our conversations. We really will become our associations.

Although some secrecy is odious, some is essential just to preserve our sense of self.

Everybody wants to say who they are and where they're from. And the easiest and cheapest and most universal way of doing that is through their accent.

That's my ultimate goal: to get people to say my name right.

'Skins' is actually a part of who I am as a person, so I was really focused on making sure the scripts and the story lines were right.

If you took my reading and writing out of my head, I don't know who I would be.

Language and identity are so fundamentally intertwined. You peel back all the layers in terms of what we wear and what we eat and all the things that mark us, and in the end, what we have are our words.

Rod Carew told me once that for those that know you, no explanation is necessary, and for those that don't know you, none is possible. That's the philosophy I live by.

How can people change their minds about us if they don't know who we are?

Honestly, in retrospect, it probably was a little easier being an adolescent and not having people immediately know that Hef was my dad.

I realized that there's this fine line between being personal and being general and being alienating.

People don't know who I am from my clothes, and they don't need to.

London really is my city; I was born within a breath of Marble Arch.

I think, as an actor, you are constantly playing other people. I would like people to get to know me on a more personal level.

None of the characters I played was very close to me as a real person.

I didn't feel ever that people needed to know who I was.

All of my characters, I feel, have some essence of who I am in them.

Writing for other people is easier than writing for myself - it's not as personal.

No one in Switzerland knows me as the Swiss Machine, and that's good, because I don't like it.