Steve Coogan Quotes

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• If you chase something too desperately, it eludes you.

  Steve Coogan

  Elude You, Elude Us, Elude

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• The truth is somewhere in the middle of funny and serious.

  Steve Coogan

  Serious, Truth Is, Middle

  "Q&A: Steve Coogan on Sex, Drugs & Bad Press". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. July 9, 2013.

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• If you got the balls to follow something through, you can end up being the coolest, smartest guy in the room, because you've literally put your ass on the line.

  Steve Coogan

  Guy, Balls, Lines

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. August 20, 2008.

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• I don't like big feet. It reminds me of gammon.

  Steve Coogan

  Funny, Feet, Bigs

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

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• If things don't come easy to you, you have to pull a rabbit out of a hat.

  Steve Coogan

  Rabbits, Hats, Easy

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

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• The important thing is not to be defined by what others think of you.

  Steve Coogan

  Thinking, Important, Think Of You

  "Philomena interview: Steve Coogan". www.sbs.com.au. December 28, 2013.

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• Actually the best thing I did was to get thrown out by my wife. She's living with a fitness instructor. He drinks that yellow stuff in tins. He's an idiot.

  Steve Coogan

  Funny, Yellow, Wife

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• I don't apologize for my behavior anymore. Whatever I do or don't do shouldn't matter. Moral certainty is dangerous. Moral certainty is what makes people go to war unnecessarily and illegally. Morality, as any halfway intelligent human being would tell you, is a very subjective thing.

  Steve Coogan

  War, Intelligent, People

  "Q&A: Steve Coogan on Sex, Drugs & Bad Press". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. July 9, 2013.

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• Me, myself, personally, I like to keep myself private. I have never said I am a paragon of virtue, a model of morality. I simply do what I do.

  Steve Coogan

  Morality, Virtue, Said

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• People come up to me in supermarkets and demand humour. And the less amusing I am, the more they piss themselves. So I say, "I'm doing my shopping, mate, OK?" and the guy will be on the floor in hysterics. Quite odd. Eventually I do have to say something funny so I usually go for something pathetic like, "It's a nice place to shop but I wouldn't like to live here!" and they roar again. Wet themselves. I'm lucky though that I am not massively famous, I can get the Tube without much bother. Must be awful being the Beckhams.

  Steve Coogan

  Nice, Shopping, People

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• Two thousand years ago, the Holy family had a ramble from Nazareth to Bethlehem - in much the same way as I'm having a ramble from Norwich to Swaffham. Although I'm not comparing myself to Jesus - I don't want to get bogged down in that whole controversy again.

  Steve Coogan

  Christmas, Jesus, Years

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• The trick is always to write in pairs because if at least two people find it funny, you've immediately halved the odds of it not being funny.

  Steve Coogan

  Writing, Odds, Two

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• There is a strong ethical dimension to the best comedy. Not only does it avoid reinforcing prejudices, it actively challenges them.

  Steve Coogan

  Strong, Challenges, Doe

  "Steve Coogan: I'm a huge fan of Top Gear. But this time I've had enough" by Steve Coogan, www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2011.

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• I try to not make safe choices, but I also like to do stuff which is interesting and is sort of exciting in some way and accessible.

  Steve Coogan

  Interesting, Choices, Trying

  Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. February 19, 2009.

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• It's like aversion therapy. You keep doing scenes over and over again with three women in the bed with you, and we had to do them all in one week. Three girls would step out and another three girls would step into the bed. It sounds like a fantasy but by the end of it, I just wanted to go for a hike on my own in the north of England, in the hills. Because it became a sort of "be careful what you wish for" kinda thing.

  Steve Coogan

  Girl, Wish, Bed

  "Q&A: Steve Coogan on Sex, Drugs & Bad Press". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. July 9, 2013.

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• In my mind God made Adam and Eve, he didn't make Adam and Steve.

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  Funny, Mind, Adam

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• I think I'm good with actors. I like directing actors. I also like to show up and just do an acting gig. Where I'm just a hired gun, I don't have to have an opinion on anything.I never got involved in all this stuff because I wanted to control stuff; I got involved in writing and producing because I wasn't getting interesting acting gigs. In a way I'm grateful that I didn't get interesting roles, because it made me pull my finger out and do some work.

  Steve Coogan

  Grateful, Writing, Gun

  Interview with Alfonso Cuarón, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 5, 2014.

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• Look at all those American preachers who got caught with their pants down. They say one thing and they are doing another. I try to be more honest about it, both in my thinking and my behavior.

  Steve Coogan

  Thinking, Trying, Looks

  "Q&A: Steve Coogan on Sex, Drugs & Bad Press". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. July 9, 2013.

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• Knowing about comedy has helped me with the drama. To see people laugh, it's like there are moments of catharsis in the middle of sadness.

  Steve Coogan

  Drama, Sadness, Knowing

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

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• People regurgitate the same old cliches and it becomes like a photocopy of a photocopy of something that's vaguely interesting.

  Steve Coogan

  People, Interesting, Cliche

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• If it was just the potatoes that were affected, at the end of the day you will pay the price if you're a fussy eater.

  Steve Coogan

  Funny, Pay The Price, The End Of The Day

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• The British often shy away from any cinematic interpretation of real sex. They sometimes have what I call "subtle sex," which is really introspective and has soft music in the background. Either that or it's played for comedy. The British are kind of hung up about sex. They find it kind of titillating and they make jokes about it because they're nervous.

  Steve Coogan

  Sex, Real, Shy

  "Q&A: Steve Coogan on Sex, Drugs & Bad Press". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. July 9, 2013.

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• When it comes to morality, I'd rather have an unfaithful president like Bill Clinton, who tried to reform welfare, than a faithful George Bush who propagated an illegal war on the rest of the world. So that is where my morality stands.

  Steve Coogan

  War, Faithful, President

  "Q&A: Steve Coogan on Sex, Drugs & Bad Press". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. July 9, 2013.

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• But with comedy it's a simple premise. If it's funny, people laugh. If it's not, they don't.

  Steve Coogan

  Simple, People, Laughing

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• Got my fungal foot powder? Ah, it's a lifesaver, you know. I'd effectively be disabled if it weren't for these.

  Steve Coogan

  Funny, Feet, Powder

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

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