Steve Coogan Quotes - Page 3

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• Hacking into a victim of crime's phone is a sort of poetically elegant manifestation of a modus operandi the tabloids have.

  Steve Coogan

  Phones, Tabloids, Hacking

  "Steve Coogan: Why I won't let News Corp off the hook" by James Robinson, www.theguardian.com. September 05, 2011.

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• What terrifies me is that I might somehow endorse that view so people think they don't have to read books anymore.

  Steve Coogan

  Book, Thinking, Views

  "Steve Coogan Doesn't Believe in Fairies". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 25, 2013.

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• I am not a politician going around bragging about family values or putting myself on some ridiculous virtuous pedestal. I write comedy. And I am an actor. I am not going to solve the nation's problems. I don't actually spend my life in the way the tabloids like to think I do. I actually spend 95 percent of it writing comedy. Sober. Well, nearly sober anyway.

  Steve Coogan

  Writing, Thinking, Pedestal

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• I love Sherlock Holmes. I've got all his books, leather-bound. What I thought was great about Sherlock Holmes was that not only was he a supersleuth, he was also a hard worker. Not only did he go out and solve the crimes, he came home and wrote it all down. Fantastic. That's why I admire him.

  Steve Coogan

  Book, Hard Work, Home

  Steve Coogan (2003). “Alan Partridge: every ruddy word : all the scripts - from radio to TV and back”

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• The irony is, of course, that many of the values that I was raised with, that I think are very important, that I hold dear, are the result of a religious faith.

  Steve Coogan

  Religious, Thinking, Important

  "Steve Coogan Doesn't Believe in Fairies". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 25, 2013.

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• I enjoy comedy but it can become wearisome.

  Steve Coogan

  Comedy, Enjoy

  "Philomena interview: Steve Coogan". Interview with Helen Barlow, www.sbs.com.au. December 28, 2013.

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• No one has a monopoly on wisdom, and even for people who aren't religious, you can learn things from religious people.

  Steve Coogan

  Religious, People, Monopoly

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• That's what gives people hope - that you can still love someone from afar and you can still have those feelings across an ocean.

  Steve Coogan

  Ocean, People, Giving

  "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. February 24, 2014.

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• The one thing that gives you faith is the fact that people can be apart physically but they can still have an emotional connection.

  Steve Coogan

  Emotional, People, Giving

  "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. February 24, 2014.

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• I'm not elitist. I like to do crowd-pleasing stuff which is a bit smart, but is just about belly laughs.

  Steve Coogan

  Smart, Laughing, Crowds

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. December 17, 2009.

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• I'm not Mother Teresa. But I'm not Frank Bough, either. I am getting older and a bit more sensible. I'm not going to be popping up in dungeons every six months. If you catch me preaching fidelity while I am shagging chickens then throw the book at me. Otherwise, leave me alone.

  Steve Coogan

  Mother, Book, Leave Me Alone

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• I'm just a good Catholic boy - I do naughty things and feel guilty about them.

  Steve Coogan

  Boys, Naughty, Catholic

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• I'm a single guy now and can do what I like. As my agent said, so long as it's not a live man or a dead woman, I'll be fine. And that, hand on heart, is unlikely to happen.

  Steve Coogan

  Heart, Men, Hands

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• I find impressionists slightly annoying, really.

  Steve Coogan

  Annoying, Impressionists

  Interview with Jessica Grose, www.slate.com. June 3, 2011.

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• I happen to have a public profile. Ditto newspaper editors. It's a result of what I do, not an end.

  Steve Coogan

  Editors, Profile, Ends

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• To me, I like and understand ritual and I think it is important. Things that we do that give us comfort are important. Like Christmas, I like to go into a church and hear the carols sung. There's a comfort of actually going inside of a church, I find them serene. They're unchanging.

  Steve Coogan

  Thinking, Giving, Important

  "Steve Coogan Doesn’t Believe In Fairies". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 25, 2013.

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• I'm really encouraged by Pope Francis, because I think his attitude is totally laudable.

  Steve Coogan

  Attitude, Thinking, Pope

  "Steve Coogan Doesn’t Believe In Fairies". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 25, 2013.

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• I'm not turned away from the church through anger, although I have criticisms of it. It's through finding affirmation of life and illumination of life through creativity and art.

  Steve Coogan

  Art, Creativity, Illumination

  "Steve Coogan Doesn't Believe in Fairies". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 25, 2013.

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• I am lucky to be in a profession that is not age dependent.

  Steve Coogan

  Age, Lucky, Profession

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• I think we all have a slightly gay gene inside us, don't we? It might be 0.00001 per cent as mine is, or one per cent as yours is.

  Steve Coogan

  Gay, Thinking, Might

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• What I don't like is dance music or hip hop or any of that sort of thing.

  Steve Coogan

  Hip Hop, Hips, Hops

  "Questions for Steve Coogan". Interview with Jessica Grose, www.slate.com. June 3, 2011.

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• I like the British public. There is something in this country called tall poppy syndrome. You're good but you're not that good, pal, OK? The natural state of our nation is slightly miserable, and probably the healthier for it. In America you don't get a key down the side of your Bentley.

  Steve Coogan

  Country, Keys, America

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• I never had any desire to be famous. I find people who do really sad. I genuinely feel sorry for them because there is nothing of substancein their lives. I am happy when I am writing or performing. Not when I sit there being "famous". I like recognition for my work, but not recognition for being "that bloke off the telly". It is genuinely humbling when a woman comes up to me, as someone did recently, to say she wanted to commit suicide after her husband died, and my show cheered her up and made her feel better. That's great.

  Steve Coogan

  Suicide, Sorry, Husband

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• You really have got lots of issues! Yeah, of 'What Car Magazine'!

  Steve Coogan

  Funny, Issues, Car

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• There's never any graffiti in the hotel. Although in the Gents a couple of weeks ago I did see someone had drawn a lady's part. Quite detailed. The guy obviously had talent.

  Steve Coogan

  Funny, Couple, Guy

  Steve Coogan (2003). “Alan Partridge: every ruddy word : all the scripts - from radio to TV and back”

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