Mason Cooley Quotes

I like someone who has a little bad boy in them, a little edge.

People like casting me as these characters who definitely have an edge to them, but I don't really think 'bad boy' is something anyone can say about themselves without sounding stupid.

The bad boy: always more fun.

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature

I have a theatrical temperament. I'm not interested in the middle road - maybe because everyone's on it. Rationality, reasonableness bewilder me.

I think that everybody would love to play the bad girl, 'cause for most of us, it's a stretch.

I'm more attracted to the bad guys. Why? Because in real life, I don't know any good guys. I know okay guys. I know polite guys. I know people who can control themselves.

We all have that desire to be kind of wild and bad.

I'm a nice guy, but I like to get into trouble.

Anybody who knows me has said, 'I had a Denis O'Hare moment.' I suppose in the kindest instance it means standing up for yourself. In the unkindest, it means the crazy guy in the street.

I was never sullen. I was a terrible punk - I was still so chatty.

It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion.

Sometimes people like the bad boy.

I don't like the clean-shaven boy with the necktie and the good job. I like desperate men, men with broken teeth and broken minds and broken ways. They interest me. They are full of surprises and explosions.

The bad boys get all the best lines.

It's important for every child to have a bit of a naughty streak.

I remember all the way back to atom, when I would be doing things I shouldn't be doing. It is just how I was. It just gets me involved in the game.

I was a loudmouth rock star when I was still in college. Purple hair this week, green hair next week, blond hair the week after. I was doing that fashion before it was really cool.

One should always be a little improbable.

In general - especially in my youth - I was a bit wild.

I don't do crazy things - I just don't.

Maybe playing around and having fun is considered being a rat... I guess I'm a rat.

We try to stay on the edge of the mainstream and look at what the most aggressive young kids are running toward.

Not everyone is as equally as adventurous as me. I get that.

I was always the flamboyant one and the one who wanted to be really bubbly and wanted to perform in a big way, but it's not very typical in Finland.