Dominic Cooper Quotes

Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.

I don't think anyone has ever been corrupted by a T-shirt.

Reasons always came with a purpose, to give the appearance of a struggle between principle and desire. Principle had power only until you found what you had to have.

Your mind is like, oh my God, I know this is wrong, but your body just gives in.

There is another thing about a kid, if we all remember, that you have an attraction to evil. Evil is exciting and evil is interesting, and plenty of kids have a fascination for it.

We inhabit a world where we're taught that we can have what we desire, and tend to act on it - the least we can do is admit to it when we succumb to our instincts.

Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.

Eating constitutes the greatest obstacle to self-control; it gives rise to indolence.

I think it's very easy to get corrupted.

Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure.

I felt guilty throughout the whole time, but I was seduced. The power of these drugs, sex, power, and money, was extremely strong for me.

Temptation's something you have to deal with even if you're not famous. It's harder when you're famous because it's a lot more in your face, and that makes it a little more difficult to walk away from sometimes.

What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely.

Every man has his price, or a guy like me couldn't exist.

Often we'd secretly like to do the very things we discipline ourselves against. Isn't that true? Well, here in the movies I can be as mean, as wicked as I want to - and all without hurting anybody.

Hunger and self-control do not go hand in hand.

One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.

Just because I don't do bad things doesn't mean I don't have bad thoughts.

As the world's getting filled with temptations, we're getting a bit frivolous and a bit fickle.

Sometimes America gets tempted by the glitz and glamour.

I spent money, I slept with women around the league, but I always kept my mind on the game.

Any of us are capable of doing things we're not proud of under the wrong kind of stresses.

I have been exposed to a great amount of temptation throughout the course of my career.

People go down bad paths and they make bad decisions, but it's always justified in their head.

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.