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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• I don't think I'm kind of universally known. I think in the indie world I'm probably better known than in some mainstream Hollywood terms.

  Steve Coogan

  Thinking, Hollywood, World

  "Exclusive Interview: Steve Coogan". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. February 19, 2009.

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• Depending on which side of the fence you're on, you could argue that the sexual liberation of the late '60s, led to women being emancipated in some ways. That they found a voice during that time, with feminism. It's complicated.

  Steve Coogan

  Voice, Feminism, Way

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

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• I always find it easier to portray myself as being unlikeable and idiotic; to actually play a character that is likeable and engages the audience is far more difficult. It's a more subtle kind of challenge.

  Steve Coogan

  Character, Play, Challenges

  "The Parole Officer". Interviewed with Jane Crowther, www.bbc.co.uk. October 28, 2014.

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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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• 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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• 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'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 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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• 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 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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• 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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• All those people who go around saying Life begins at forty, they're notable by their absence. The nerve.

  Steve Coogan

  Funny, People, Nerves

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

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• I don't like comedy that I think is bad comedy, where people are trying to be sick for the sake of it, where there's no intellectual point behind it. I like stuff that's got an underlying point of view.

  Steve Coogan

  Thinking, Views, People

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

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• I woke with a start. At first I assumed I'd trumped myself awake again.

  Steve Coogan

  Funny, Firsts, Awake

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• I'm 47, my girlfriend's 33; she's 14 years younger than me: Back of the net!

  Steve Coogan

  Funny, Girlfriend, Years

  "Fictional character: Alan Partridge". TV Series "I'm Alan Partridge", 1997–2002.

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• I'm getting older , so I'm quieting down a bit.

  Steve Coogan

  Getting Older, Bits, Getting Old

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

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• When you see a crowd of people jumping up and down at a pop concert, all gloriously in the moment, I don't think you'll ever see a comedian there. They'll all be standing at the sides, looking at how it all fits together.

  Steve Coogan

  Thinking, Jumping, People

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• Convoy? Michael, you're hanging around with a man who uses a collective term for a single vehicle.

  Steve Coogan

  Funny, Men, Use

  "Fictional character: Alan Partridge". TV Series "I'm Alan Partridge", 1997-2002.

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• Two fat ladies, 88! Not that you'd find these ladies at a bingo hall, of course... they're altogether a higher class of fat lady.

  Steve Coogan

  Funny, Class, Two

  "The Day Today". Comedy, 1994.

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• Going to a grammar school, you mixed with all sorts of different types and I used to listen to how they talked. When I did my imitations, I could sound like someone really rough, or I could sound like a cabinet minister.

  Steve Coogan

  School, Sound, Different

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• Actually, bizarrely, in America, I get more appreciation from the odd, unusual stuff I've done, almost because I'm not, if you like, famous in America as I am in England.

  Steve Coogan

  Appreciation, America, Done

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

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• There were days when we used to say, what was in today's paper is tomorrow's fish-and-chip paper.When I became successful, I enjoyed myself a little.

  Steve Coogan

  Successful, Paper, Littles

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

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