Steve Coogan Quotes - Page 5

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• I think if you try to look for something to show off as an actor, vanity can get the better of you.

  Steve Coogan

  Thinking, Vanity, Trying

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

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• I like comedy, but I like comedy as a device in drama. It's more interesting for me to use comedy to seduce people into thinking about something serious. If you want to hit a beat in a drama, you can distract people with a little comedy, and you can punch them in the gut with some emotion.

  Steve Coogan

  Drama, Thinking, People

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

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• The best feeling in the world is performing in front of a live audience who like what you're doing. I can understand why people become dictators just because of the thrill they get making the speeches.

  Steve Coogan

  People, Feelings, Thrill

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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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• 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 have never wanted to be famous, as such - fame is a by-product.

  Steve Coogan

  Fame, Wanted, Products

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

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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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• A lot of people can be very scared about making themselves vulnerable and appearing uncool. I don't really give a damn; as long as it's funny, I'll do it [make fun of myself].

  Steve Coogan

  Fun, Giving, Long

  Interview with Peter Martin, www.esquire.com. February 11, 2007.

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• Yeah, all drama teachers are very effusive, very demonstrative, very emotionally open, very big, and gesticulate a lot, and are very physical.

  Steve Coogan

  Teacher, Drama, Yeah

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

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• It is not true that sex degrades women... if it is any good.

  Steve Coogan

  Sex, Degrade, Ifs

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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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• When Americans talks about Europeans, they are thinking Britain and the rest of Europe. When we [ Britains] talk about Europeans, we talk about everywhere else.

  Steve Coogan

  Thinking, Europe, Britain

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

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• What tends to happen in most movies is that strip clubs are used as a short hand for unsympathetic, sleazy people. And that's just a lazy cliché.

  Steve Coogan

  Hands, People, Lazy

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

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• I like to do movies that provoke rather than reinforce conservative values.

  Steve Coogan

  Conservative, Provoking, Conservative Values

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

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• There are conservative values where certain lifestyles are imposed and everybody should have 2.4 children and a dog and a cat and a house and you should feel like God and you should believe in God and you should be a capitalist. I don't buy any of that.

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  Dog, Children, Believe

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

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• The fundamentalists are insistent that they know best. It's a dictatorial attitude towards personal morality, which is a modern creation that came about in the 19th century.

  Steve Coogan

  Attitude, Morality, Creation

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

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• The rest of Europe tends to be very comfortable with sexuality. The British and the Americans are kind of hung up about it.

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  Europe, Kind, Sexuality

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

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• Look at the 18th century. There was a lot more freedom going on.

  Steve Coogan

  Looks, Century, 18th Century

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

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• It's arguably the best newspaper in the world.

  Steve Coogan

  Funny, World, Newspapers

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

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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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• I don't want to go around making everyone else agree with me. I don't feel the need to do that.

  Steve Coogan

  Needs, Want, Feels

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

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• If you're driving your car and someone winds the window down and gives you the finger and calls you an asshole, instead of giving him the finger back and calling him an asshole back, you just pull a funny face, and he doesn't know how to react to that, because you're using different rules.

  Steve Coogan

  Wind, Giving, Car

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

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• I'm not like a politician that goes around talking about family values. And I can't get fired from being a funny person because I did something that most people are disapproving of. I think people are just obsessed with this morality that people perceive as being the right and wrong way of doing stuff.

  Steve Coogan

  Thinking, Talking, People

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

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