Dominic Cooper Quotes

If you're not prepared, and you're not passionate, and you don't push yourself to a level of human exhaustion on every level, mentally and physically and creatively... I've seen directors who approach it casually, and they do somehow maintain better hours... but I could never be that guy. I am up and editing all night.

You get involved with a character after spending a long time waiting, and this demands a lot of energy and concentration.

If I'm doing a scene that requires a lot of focus, I'll just take myself away and do what I have to do.

Patient perseverance in well doing is infinitely harder than a sudden and impulsive self-sacrifice.

I trained 8 hours a day 7 seven days a week and I had 2 weeks off in a year.

Unless a man believes in himself and makes a total commitment to his career and puts everything he has into it - his mind, his body, his heart - what's life worth to him?

My principal at RADA once told me, 'You'll know you're a professional when you don't feel like doing it but you have to do it.'

You do have to be fairly selfish when you have a gift. You cannot afford to let too many outside things get in the way.

I can work 24 hours a day and not have it bother me.

I am very driven. I work really hard, whether it's acting or my charity or even poker. When I focus on something I give it my all.

I work every single day, even on Sundays.

Debra Winger doesn't let anything interfere with her performance, which is the way it should be.

I love hard work. 'One Man, Two Guvnors' was so physically tiring I ached all the time, but I took a massive amount of pride in the fact that I only ever missed two shows.

I don't do too much outside of football during football season, because this is my job and I take it seriously. I don't do too much, don't really go out at all that much, don't eat out or anything, try to stay focused and stay to myself.

Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else. I want to give myself completely.

I have always worked long hours and very hard. It is the way I am. Same as always. Up about seven and get to bed about 12 to 1, something like that.

I'm a diligent person, and that came directly from having hardworking parents.

I really believe in the characters I play.

I'm like, bursting. I should be working. I don't want to take a break. It's funny, on set, I don't have to go to the bathroom, I don't have anything wrong, I'm perfectly fine, so through-and-through. I'm not hungry. I'm literally not even in my own body.

Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.

I don't know how I did it, but I worked 7 days a week.

When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.

Even in between takes, you emerge yourself. So you don't have a life for six months.

I am not the greatest actor in the world, but the reason I keep working is that I work hard and show up every day and be easy to work with.

I take every role seriously. Personally, I never look at any role as Michael White. I've done that my entire life.