Also, below, part III of the Jolie interview.

"I have cab drivers offer me free rides," Cooper said. "The other thing I've never understood is why people start offering you free stuff. Why should famous people get free stuff? I just don't get it. It seems completely counterintuitive. And, you know, obviously, I don't accept."

On the downside of fame are all those close encounters of the crazy kind.

"I was at a book signing in New York and a clearly deranged woman approached, and she had a book, and she said, 'I can't afford this book but please read the note,'" Cooper recounted. "Clearly, she was a schizophrenic. Anyway, she left, the book signing was done, and as I go into my car - I have a security guy and he puts me in my car - she's sitting in my car. And they close the door, and I'm like, 'Oh!'"

He added: "It is very strange for people to feel they have a relationship with you."

Cooper said he tries to ignore what other media types are saying and writing about him. "I don't think there's much benefit from reading your own press clippings or looking at billboards of yourself," he said. "In fact, since I've written this book, I don't go to bookstores anymore, 'cause I'm afraid someone will see me loitering near my book and think: 'How pathetic!'"

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