Sarah Cooper Quotes

The way I was brought up, there was a little bit of prodding to do something more practical, and I wasted a lot of time trying to be a practical person.

I wanted to be a serious actress, but of course that didn't really happen.

When I wanted to be an actress, I never wanted really to be the kind of actress I became.

I don't have an exact moment when I decided I wanted to be an actress - it kind of was just really a part of my growing up.

I mean, I'm not unhappy, but there's still so much I want to do.

If I had made it in cheerleading, I would have never been an actress.

I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.

My mother started out by being a very good girl. She did everything that was expected of her, and it cost her dearly. Late in her life, she was furious that she had not followed her own heart; she thought that it had ruined her life, and I think she was right.

I was cursed with age, really. You do that stupid thing at 12 years old when you say something and it kind of sticks with you for the rest of your life. So, I believe I said I wanted to be a fishery manager. In hindsight, I think acting could be a better route.

I haven't done as many films as I would have liked.

I've been telling people 'I'm going to go to California, and I'm going to be a big star' since the womb, but lately it was immediately followed by, 'Would you like soup or salad with that?'

I believe that a dream un-followed turns into all kinds of bad things in the lives of those who don't pursue them.

Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.

I always wanted to play a cowboy. I just didn't get to do it the way I thought I would.

I love the romcom. I thought I had a career playing the best friend. What happened to that? It's really sad to me.

You never forget the feeling of not getting to the World Series. Yes, it sticks with you.

I missed out on the World Cup twice and it did not kill me.

It's always been the ones that got away that stick in your memory. You use them for motivation. The ones you win are brilliant and you enjoy them, and then you move on.

I'd been a lost young actress searching for everything: my big break, a way to save some money, friends I could connect with and - more than anything - purpose in my life.

My grandmother really wanted to see me become a singer, but she passed away before I became one.

I've always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music, I would have loved to had that break, but it never was offered to me, a job in that field, so naturally, I got lost on that other road.

I am not the kind of person I want to be.

Have we not all, amid life's petty strife, Some pure ideal of a noble life That once seemed possible? Did we not hear The flutter of its wings, and feel it near, And just within our reach? It was. And yet We lost it in this daily jar and fret, And now live idle in a vague regret; But still our place is kept, and it will wait, Ready for us to fill it, soon or late. No star is ever lost we once have seen, We always may be what we might have been.

The ambitious man has never found his true vocation.

I'm sort of doing a lot of the things now that I never thought I would and that I wished I had done a year or so ago.