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Bradley Cooper

lines on the record: 41
first: 2019-02-08
most recent: 2019-02-08
sittings or episodes: 1
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“I want to be comfortable with myself no matter what. Whether I became famous or not would have nothing to do with whether I needed to do the work on myself as a human being. Just being alive, I think necessitates the work that's needed.”
2019-02-08 · Oprah's Super Soul · Bradley Cooper: A Soulful Star Is Born · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The fame part, yeah, but personally, I had the benefit of Hangover was really the first time that I felt that shift. And I was 36 at the time, I think. And I had also been working as an actor for so long, and I'd seen so many people go through it that I was very lucky that it didn't happen when I was like 20. So I always knew the reality of that it's never going to give me anything that I want, nor does it have anything to do with me, really.”
2019-02-08 · Oprah's Super Soul · Bradley Cooper: A Soulful Star Is Born · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“In terms of this property, a star is born and how an element of it, which is unavoidable as how do you deal with fame. And I didn't want to have any, I just didn't have an interest of showing a press conference or being chased by paparazzi. But so I thought, what is the sort of impact of fame? And I thought sonically is how I think about fame, where you're with the cacophony of noise at the beginning of the movie and then silence so that I'm here with you, with all of you, and it feels wonderful and I'm filled. And then I'm going to leave. And then, you know, you have to readjust. And that's a transition that you have to make. And that's why family is everything. And that was part of why I wanted to tell the story of Jackson, just because he didn't curate any other aspect of his life. And because that's going to go. And so that's how you mean the same.”
2019-02-08 · Oprah's Super Soul · Bradley Cooper: A Soulful Star Is Born · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It provides the courage to keep going and expanding. You know, it's funny, I never, even when I was a kid, I never had, you know, where do you see yourself in five years or a board? For some reason, that never was something that spoke to me. But maybe that's because I knew I wanted to make movies since I was 12. And I was almost burdened by that knowledge in some ways. But the thing that I feel like, for example, if this movie gave me anything, it's almost like if my... My landscape of vision was like this before, it just went like that. And I feel like, okay, now I see other potential inability to tell stories, to keep telling stories that I think that fear had made it put blinders on. So”
2019-02-08 · Oprah's Super Soul · Bradley Cooper: A Soulful Star Is Born · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Changed everything. Yeah, I mean, our daughter is. She's incredible. And I see my father and her quite often, and I can't believe I'm going to admit this, but I have in moments when she was a child, and I was just in the room with her, I would say. There's some moments where she looks just like my father.”
2019-02-08 · Oprah's Super Soul · Bradley Cooper: A Soulful Star Is Born · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, yeah. He was very sick in my dreams the first couple years, and now when he comes, he's like 50 years old. He's pretty healthy.”
2019-02-08 · Oprah's Super Soul · Bradley Cooper: A Soulful Star Is Born · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh yeah, I cherish them. Oh, I love Wendy's in my dreams. Oh, yeah. It's funny in the beginning, he was very sick in my dreams, and now in my dreams he's healthy”
2019-02-08 · Oprah's Super Soul · Bradley Cooper: A Soulful Star Is Born · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Did you feel that? Did you feel that? Oh, no question. Stronger, more open, more willing to fail because of him and because of that transparency.”
2019-02-08 · Oprah's Super Soul · Bradley Cooper: A Soulful Star Is Born · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I mean, I could tell you exactly. I remember his head and his balding head, the texture of his linens, and then I remember raising my head and my dog, Charlotte at the time, was there at the bed, and it was nighttime and exactly the clock, everything. I remember that moment and I looked up and I thought, Everything was different.”
2019-02-08 · Oprah's Super Soul · Bradley Cooper: A Soulful Star Is Born · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Second biggest gift. Having me, bringing me into this life, and then him allowing me to be witness to his passing was equally as huge. And it really honestly felt like he was cradled, his head was right here, and when he took the last breath, I honestly felt like it went into me and I never seen anything the same since. And I stopped sweating stuff that I was sweating before that. It changed the way I was as an actor by like the next day. And I just started to live my life in a different way. I had seen someone die before, but losing my father in that way, it was changed ever since.”
2019-02-08 · Oprah's Super Soul · Bradley Cooper: A Soulful Star Is Born · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh, yeah, I remember when my grandfather died and we were in the hospital, and my uncle, who I idolized, was there, and he came, and my father was there, and him touching my father's shoulder. My father was sort of the surrogate child for my mother's side of the family. She had a wonderful Italian family, and he was sort of adopted by them in a lot of ways. And my uncle said to him, he loved you like a son. And that was just a moment seeing them both break down that it was ingrained in my brain forever.”
2019-02-08 · Oprah's Super Soul · Bradley Cooper: A Soulful Star Is Born · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's just the way men have behaved in my life. I was thinking about my uncle and my father. I didn't see a lot of emotion and there were a lot of pauses before emotional moments growing up watching men. And that always crushed me as a child, watching my father cry.”
2019-02-08 · Oprah's Super Soul · Bradley Cooper: A Soulful Star Is Born · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, absolutely. And specifically, Sam Elliott, I thought there was a meta aspect to Sam to watching Sam Elliott, who we've seen in so many movies play this sort of wise sage. It's got it all together. What happens when we watch that actor with that voice just had to endure life filled with resentment? And that was one of the things when I first pitched the movie to Sam and I asked him to come over. I said, Listen, I want to see you play a guy who has, that is the”
2019-02-08 · Oprah's Super Soul · Bradley Cooper: A Soulful Star Is Born · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, come on. That's amazing. Amazing. And yesterday it was a great thing so they ask you all to go on these risers and they take a photo. It takes a long time for everybody to go up. Yeah, yeah. And Stephanie was two people to my left and then Sam was like 10. And I was just, and Thomas Sanders, the sound mixer, and Mark Ronson who wrote a song, was over there. But I was just watching. I spent a lot of the 45 minutes while they were calling names and were just standing there, just looking at the two of them and thinking, like, I felt just so grateful. It was amazing. And seeing Sam Elliott, who's been in this business for over half a century, just, you know, up there. And I could tell that he was, I think he was really proud.”
2019-02-08 · Oprah's Super Soul · Bradley Cooper: A Soulful Star Is Born · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And Elizabeth Kemp, who has since passed, who was a major influence and teacher in my life. And she just put the work in because all I was interested in, as I said, was having something real and authentic. And I thought that Eric, Will, and I wrote a character that if she dug deep, she could find a real authentic way to inhabit that role of Allie. And she put the work in, and then she was just magnificent.”
2019-02-08 · Oprah's Super Soul · Bradley Cooper: A Soulful Star Is Born · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I hope I did that through example that she saw that I was holding her hand and we were doing it walking down the path together. And that was part of the benefit of being able to act in the movie I directed She put the work in. You know, I actually knew that she wasn't in that place and I asked the studio if we could wait two months, which as you know is a big deal. And we just doubled down and we worked with two acting coaches that I learned that I've loved over the years, Susan Batson.”
2019-02-08 · Oprah's Super Soul · Bradley Cooper: A Soulful Star Is Born · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And we did sing everything live in the movie. So it's not like I haven't had that experience. It is much different on live television at the Oscars and Jackson Maine doesn't exist anymore. But what was terrifying was going in Vegas when there was no rehearsal and I was watching the show and just got up there. And also I just felt like I didn't want to let her down because she had just done this incredible show for two hours and I'm going to ruin it in the last five minutes. But no, I'm going to put the work in. And so the hope is when you put the work in, then you can just enjoy it, and then you give it away. And that's the whole thing is people want to hear that song. I have no desire to sing that song at the Oscars, but I have a desire for people to hear something they want to hear.”
2019-02-08 · Oprah's Super Soul · Bradley Cooper: A Soulful Star Is Born · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know, her best advice, and she gave it to me when we were shooting the drag bar scene when Jackson sings when he's waiting for her to come out of the dressing room. I sang it once and she came up to me and just whispered and she said, you don't have to try to sing it. And it was the best direction. And it's just when I'm just saying if I'm actually like acting, I'm actually talking when you're telling a story when you sing. And then all of a sudden all the work just comes through without you trying to force it. So her best advice to me about singing was just try not to sing. Which is interesting, which is kind of like acting because you're trying to get people not to act to actually just behave and get out of your head.”
2019-02-08 · Oprah's Super Soul · Bradley Cooper: A Soulful Star Is Born · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh, oh, oh. Well, I found myself in a place of utter serenity artistically where I was in the right place at the right time every day. I was working on this movie. That was a wonderful feeling. It also gave me the confidence to keep doing it and also made me realize just how much more powerful we are when we work together. The fact that I could have a dream and then all of these people that helped and worked on the movie and put all of themselves. And I demanded a lot. We all worked together to fulfill that dream. I mean, that gave me a lot of confidence about community and about going further what we can all create together when we work together. Because that is the thing I love about filmmaking. It is a collaborative art form.”
2019-02-08 · Oprah's Super Soul · Bradley Cooper: A Soulful Star Is Born · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's very accurate. Yes, I would say that this is what it felt like And the beautiful thing about it was it was a communal offering. And that's what I love filmmaking so much. So it wasn't just me, it was everybody who had anything to do with the movie.”
2019-02-08 · Oprah's Super Soul · Bradley Cooper: A Soulful Star Is Born · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean, I think anytime your art is you put your art out there and it's as personal as you can make it, you can learn everything about that person by the art that they make.”
2019-02-08 · Oprah's Super Soul · Bradley Cooper: A Soulful Star Is Born · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It was crazy. But the thing that I realized, it just reinforced when I watched the video, I thought, thank you. Not even for a second.”
2019-02-08 · Oprah's Super Soul · Bradley Cooper: A Soulful Star Is Born · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, no, but no, it's a hard thing to answer, but it is true. And because I co-wrote it, I was able to make things much easier for myself that I wouldn't have to act or create an imaginary circumstances, little things about Jackson I could beeline a relationship to. And sometimes it was as practical as casting my dog to play Jackson's dog or Jackson's ear doctor to be my ear doctor. But it was all, but then at the same time, and the one thing I learned from, I went in Las Vegas, I went and sang with Lady Gaga like last week.”
2019-02-08 · Oprah's Super Soul · Bradley Cooper: A Soulful Star Is Born · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I don't know what, I mean, real for me. Yeah, 20 minutes a day. I need structure. Yeah, so yeah. And I think just my hope is that the thing that I realized when I was in my late 20s is that, oh gosh, if I don't get my stuff together, I'm not going to fulfill my potential as a human being. And I think that started a path that I just every day I wake up and I try to be present. And we spoke right before here, I wanted to show my gratitude today. The fact that I want to show my gratitude to you today, and I don't want you to like me or fear me or think a certain way about me or show you a person that I think I'm trying to show you, but just be myself. Is such a blessing, and that's the goal. I just want to be here for you.”
2019-02-08 · Oprah's Super Soul · Bradley Cooper: A Soulful Star Is Born · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Let me come right away parents upbringing age going through strife going through a failure and they're coming out the other side You know I think all of those things meditation massive huge huge thing for me meditation is big prayer”
2019-02-08 · Oprah's Super Soul · Bradley Cooper: A Soulful Star Is Born · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And movies for me since I was a child have always shattered me in a way that broke me apart and then I was able to put myself back together because it taps something in me that I didn't feel alone. And I thought if I could do that for you, then that's a reason why I'm here. When I hear you read that, it reinforces my deep feeling that how much we need each other and how much we actually do love each other and what was said here and how much we actually do relate to each other no matter what.”
2019-02-08 · Oprah's Super Soul · Bradley Cooper: A Soulful Star Is Born · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'd say it reinforces what has been said on the stage tonight is the hope and the goodness of people and how much we need each other. The only thing I set out to do was to tap into as an authentic place as possible in myself and everybody I asked to make this movie to tell the story of a human story of people that are going to deal with their family life trauma as a child, addiction in a real way, and love in this life and finding your voice. I thought even from the beginning, why am I going to make this movie at 40 years old? Why am I going to direct? Because I thought, if I can do this, if I can really tap into what it is for me, all of those things in a story make it cinematic. Oh, singers, that's a way. And in that world, that could be cinematic. But if I could really hone in and the anchors are all these things that I personally can relate to and everybody in the movie, the hope is you will relate to it.”
2019-02-08 · Oprah's Super Soul · Bradley Cooper: A Soulful Star Is Born · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Like this sense of watching somebody, you're so authentic, you're so present, and for you to come through that television for me. And then I was able to watch it all through my adolescence really gave me such a beautiful lesson in life about how to behave in life that I can dream and achieve my dreams. And I'm one of the millions of people. So thank you for that. And you never know. You never know who you're going to implement. No, that's the beautiful thing. You know, you never know. And then fast reward to my parents and I when I first moved to LA, I think she lives in Santa Barbara and we're driving. And I think there's a TV in front of her gate, so that's how we'll know. And we drove around trying to find your house.”
2019-02-08 · Oprah's Super Soul · Bradley Cooper: A Soulful Star Is Born · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“For the Oscars I completely do a segue? Yes. Because I just want to say this You changed my life and just talk about doing something you believe in and no matter what and of course you've received so many accolades but of course it was a huge thing to have your own television show 1986. I'm 11 years old. I mean, I'm going to try not to lose it here, but 11 years old with my grandparents in Philadelphia watching days of our lives in another world and soap operas. And I was there every afternoon. And when your show started, it just provided for me a”
2019-02-08 · Oprah's Super Soul · Bradley Cooper: A Soulful Star Is Born · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“She was wrong. I had to work hard. She was kind. It was a song. It was like the only song I could sing. It was the one I asked her to sing.”
2019-02-08 · Oprah's Super Soul · Bradley Cooper: A Soulful Star Is Born · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The screen because everything that I had an opportunity to co write and direct a movie and see it from an idea in my head or an inspiration in my soul to showing you this story, are you kidding me? That's like praise God.”
2019-02-08 · Oprah's Super Soul · Bradley Cooper: A Soulful Star Is Born · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“They did like it, but it goes back to my answer about the Oscars is you can't give up that much power to things that really have nothing to do with why you're creating art or why you're doing something.”
2019-02-08 · Oprah's Super Soul · Bradley Cooper: A Soulful Star Is Born · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The trick is to make something that you believe in and you work hard and then you have the product and you say, okay, I remember going the first time we ever showed the movie was at the Venice Film Festival and I remember riding in the boat up there. Really, at this stage of my life, I tend not to get too terrified about things. And I was really, I felt I was sick. And I thought, oh yeah, I really do care about what people are going to feel because it's a very personal thing. It was a very personal thing, this movie. And I really did show myself in a way that I thought, oh, wow, this is vulnerable. And the thing I said to myself was if people don't like it or whatever they say, please don't let that stop inspiring you to make art. Because do not give that power away.”
2019-02-08 · Oprah's Super Soul · Bradley Cooper: A Soulful Star Is Born · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But the truth is, even if I got the nomination, that should not give me any sense of whether I did my job or not. That's the trick. That's the trick”
2019-02-08 · Oprah's Super Soul · Bradley Cooper: A Soulful Star Is Born · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I was not surprised. You were not? I was never surprised about not getting anything, but I did feel, you know, and it's fun you ask that because I have thought about this because I was with my friend, I was in New York City at a coffee shop and I looked down at my phone and Nicole had texted me and they said, you know, congratulations on these other things, but they didn't tell me the bad news. And I went, oh wow. And the first thing I felt was embarrassment, actually.”
2019-02-08 · Oprah's Super Soul · Bradley Cooper: A Soulful Star Is Born · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Reason, right? But the truth is, it never feels you only feel like you're a loser when people treat you like it afterwards. That's the only downside because the award show ends and people are like, first of all, they avoid you a little bit. And then they do say like, you know, it was a good movie. Oh, thanks, thanks”
2019-02-08 · Oprah's Super Soul · Bradley Cooper: A Soulful Star Is Born · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's so surreal to be able to grab Spike Lee yesterday and talk to him, a guy who made a movie that changed my life, do the right thing. When I saw that movie, it really made me rethink what I thought I knew even as a young man growing up in Philadelphia. So to be in that world, I remember the first time I was nominated Daniel Day Lewis. I was in the same category with Daniel Day Lewis and Denzel Washington and Hugh Ackman. And it was just, you know, to be there this year with Christian Bale at Bigo Mordensen and Rami Malik, you know, and to be a director now, it's so surreal, to be honest. I mean, it doesn't make any sense. So I just try to breathe through it, be present for it, and take all the goodness I can. But that's a great”
2019-02-08 · Oprah's Super Soul · Bradley Cooper: A Soulful Star Is Born · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“OGA, this is going to be an awesome movie. No, it's the joy of doing. I mean, that's why it's, and then that's why, thank God you're able to put so much work in. This is more about just getting through it, really. This phase. Yeah, yeah. And just taking all the goodness out of it. And that's it.”
2019-02-08 · Oprah's Super Soul · Bradley Cooper: A Soulful Star Is Born · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The movie felt done a while ago. Oh, really? Yeah. Yeah. The truth is this plays into things that have nothing to do with creating art. It's a whole other element of the business. So it's really reconciling its effect on you. That's the thing that I tend to deal with. Because you don't ever do it for, I never thought ever doing anything for, first of all, just takes too much. It's too hard. Like you said, you have to have love to put the work in So, if it's love to get an Oscar, that's not enough love to put the work that's needed.”
2019-02-08 · Oprah's Super Soul · Bradley Cooper: A Soulful Star Is Born · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh, yeah. It's incredible. And Nicole Caruso, who's here, is my friend and publicist, said, you know, there are 12 people that have nominations yesterday from a stars born. And I just thought, wow, you know, that's just, it's just icing on the cake. To be able to work with people and have them be recognized by the academy for a star is born is incredible.”
2019-02-08 · Oprah's Super Soul · Bradley Cooper: A Soulful Star Is Born · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'm just going to speak for all of us. Can you hear me? Okay, what a privilege it is for all of us to be here watching you do what you do so well. You to have this day here and have all these incredible people, for me to bear witness in all of us. Thank you.”
2019-02-08 · Oprah's Super Soul · Bradley Cooper: A Soulful Star Is Born · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source