Bradley Cooper Net Worth

Bradley Cooper's Quotes

• There was a lot of Sack Lodges at my high school. - Sack Lodge is his character from Wedding Crashers (2005).
• [on getting the script for Kitchen Confidential (2005)] I was in New York shooting Law & Order (1990) and the script came along, and I completely connected to it. From the first page, when he says, "Ever since I was eight years old, I knew what I wanted to be." When I was eight years old, I wanted to be a chef or an actor. I used to cook all the time. I worked in restaurants the first half of my life. (November 2005)
• I had size 12 feet when I was 10, so I thought I was going to be 6' 8". My goal was to be able to dunk a basket. I wound up being 6' 1" with size 14 feet. I got the raw end of the deal.
• [2010, on his younger years] I never lived the life of "Oh, you're so good-looking." People thought I was a girl when I was little, because I looked like a girl - maybe because my mother would keep my hair really long in a bowl cut. I was in a coffee shop once and the waitress was like "What do you want, Miss?" I was 10 or 11 - the worst age to have that happen. I had a jean jacket on and a Metallica pin. I thought I was really cool.
• [2010, on the incredible shape he got into for The A-Team (2010) ] As the movie progressed, I got in increasingly better shape. There's this one fight scene with Liam Neeson toward the end, where it's, like, the apex of the work. We finished and Joe Carnahan's like "Brother, come here, look at this," and he played it back, and I swear to God, it looked like my head was digitally superimposed onto someone else's body. I was like "This cannot be me - that's the way I look?" It was so fucking surreal, 'cause as a kid I only fantasized about looking that way. Remember Soloflex commercials? That was huge when I was a kid. It was like "I wanna be the Soloflex guy. Mom, can we get the Soloflex?".

Interesting Facts about Bradley Cooper

1. Was a medalist on the Men's Heavyweight Crew at Georgetown University.
2. Had to miss his graduation commencement to film Wet Hot American Summer (2001).
3. Considers Daniel Day-Lewis the world's greatest actor.
4. Attended and graduated from Germantown Academy in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania (1993).
5. His father, Charles "Charlie" Cooper, was of Irish heritage, and worked as a stockbroker with Merrill Lynch. His mother, Gloria Cooper (née Campano), is of Italian heritage, and worked for an NBC station.
6. Cooper has spent many weekends with the Learning through the Expanded Arts Program (LEAP), which is a non-profit organization that teaches inner-city school children about acting.
7. Has an older sister: Holly Cooper.
8. Speaks French fluently. He even did an interview, promoting The Hangover Part II (2011) entirely in French.
9. Auditioned for the lead role of Hal Jordan in Green Lantern (2011), which went to Ryan Reynolds.
10. Was in a relationship with Renée Zellweger (July 2009-March 2011).
11. In the Steven Spielberg episode of Inside the Actors Studio (1994), Cooper appears in the audience about 15 minutes into the episode.
12. Member of the same Los Angeles gym as Ryan Gosling, Jason Sarayba, Jodie Foster, Michelle Monaghan, Christopher Mintz-Plasse and Ashley Tisdale.
13. Became close friends with Victor Garber during production on Alias (2001).
14. While a guest on Live with Regis and Kathie Lee (1988) (aka "Live with Regis & Kelly"), Cooper was asked which of the actresses he has co-starred with was his favorite on-screen kisser. Instead of an actress, he chose Michael Ian Black, with whom he shared a love scene in Wet Hot American Summer (2001).
15. Drives a 2007 black Prius, and a 2004 G55 AMG Mercedes truck. He also owns a Vespa, which was a gift from The Hangover Part II (2011) director, Todd Phillips (2011).
16. For six months prior to filming The A-Team (2010) and during the shoot, he cut out sugar, salt and flour and underwent grueling two-hour workouts with a trainer every day.
17. Admitted that in the beginning of his career casting agents tended to peg him as just a 'pretty boy', which made finding meaningful roles challenging.
18. Claimed that watching David Lynch's production of The Elephant Man (1980) on television is what inspired him to be an actor. He later played the title character of John Merrick on stage for his graduate thesis at the Actors Studio, which he attended after graduating from Georgetown in 1997. He also went to London just to research the role, rather obsessively.
19. Was named "The Sexiest Man Alive" by People magazine. [November 2011]
20. Is the first alumnus of the Actors Studio to be interviewed as a guest on Inside the Actors Studio (1994). Cooper can be seen in the audience in four episodes, one with guest Robert De Niro, and again with Sean Penn, and finally late into the interviews with Clint Eastwood and again with Gary Sinise, though if you blink you might miss it. Cooper put himself on tape to audition for a role as De Niro's son in Everybody's Fine (2009) (with his own mother playing the role of De Niro), but lost out to Sam Rockwell. Cooper eventually starred with De Niro in Limitless (2011), and again as father and son in Silver Linings Playbook (2012). The film was released to great critical acclaim, and both actors earned Academy Award nominations for their performances.