Steve Coogan Quotes
Top 73 wise famous quotes and sayings by Steve Coogan
Steve Coogan Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Steve Coogan on Wise Famous Quotes.
Got my fungal foot powder? Ah, it's a lifesaver, you know. I'd effectively be disabled if it weren't for these.
Big comedy is good, I like things that are big, but good comedy has to be truthful I think and has to reflect some sort of reality.
Even great people are always slightly disappointing, which is generally what makes them interesting.
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.
Yeah, all drama teachers are very effusive, very demonstrative, very emotionally open, very big, and gesticulate a lot, and are very physical.
What terrifies me is that I might somehow endorse that view so people think they don't have to read books anymore.
My father worked for IBM. My mother raised us kids. There were six of us, and a couple of extra foster kids at any given time.
Actors say they do their own stunts for the integrity of the film but I did them because they looked like a lot of fun.
Hacking into a victim of crime's phone is a sort of poetically elegant manifestation of a modus operandi the tabloids have.
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.
I am of the very last generation who didn't have computers at school. As we grow old we'll become something of an aberration.
That's what gives people hope - that you can still love someone from afar and you can still have those feelings across an ocean.
I'm an entertainer. I don't go round saying I'm a paragon of virtue, so that is clearly not in the public interest.
IT'S OUR IMPERFECTIONS THAT MAKE US VULNERABLE, MAKE US INTERESTING. HOW CAN I MAKE MYSELF A BIT OF AN ASSHOLE AND STILL HAVE HUMANITY ABOUT IT?
The rest of Europe tends to be very comfortable with sexuality. The British and the Americans are kind of hung up about it.
I used to do stuff at college. I could do voices. I could make some people laugh. I wasn't the class clown, but I knew I had this skill.
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.
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.
I think there's as much profundity and wisdom in Shakespeare, more so in fact, than those in the Bible.
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.
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.
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.
People regurgitate the same old cliches and it becomes like a photocopy of a photocopy of something that's vaguely interesting.
I don't like new bands. I don't want to be one of those pathetic old men in their forties who knows exactly what 18-year-olds are into.
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.
No one has a monopoly on wisdom, and even for people who aren't religious, you can learn things from religious people.
Guide dogs for the blind. It's cruel really, isn't it? Getting a dog to lead a man round all day. Not fair on either of them.
There is a strong ethical dimension to the best comedy. Not only does it avoid reinforcing prejudices, it actively challenges them.
I think you need to have the guts to not use comedy. Often, the people that work in comedy use a joke to avoid contemplation.
All those people who go around saying Life begins at forty, they're notable by their absence. The nerve.
Even if I screw up in my personal life, as long as I'm not destroying myself, I just think, "Okay, I screwed up." I'm not Mother Theresa.