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Steve Coogan is a British comedian, screenwriter, and producer, known for his distinctive humor and profound character portrayals. He began his career in the early 1990s, gaining attention for his role in the television series 'The Day Today'. Since then, he has starred in numerous television shows and films, including 'In the Loop', 'Philomena', and the 'The Trip' series.

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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.”

Thinking Europe Britain

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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.”

Thinking Trying Looks One Thing Honest Behavior Caught Pants Preacher

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

Thinking Important Important Things Defined Think Of You

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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.”

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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.”

Thinking Might Mines Gay Genes Cents

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“I think it's always funny when you see kids do Shakespeare. When I was at school, I was in Hamlet. I played Claudius, who's supposed to be a 60-year-old man, and I was like 18. It's inherently ridiculous seeing 18-year-old boys with gray beards. That's always funny.”

Thinking Men Years Kids School Boys Seeing Ridiculous Supposed To Be Old Man Gray Beard

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“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.”

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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.”

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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.”

Thinking Important Values Courses Religious Results Raised Dear Irony Religious Faith

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

Thinking Attitude Pope

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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.”

Thinking Giving Important Church Comfort Important Things Ritual Serene Unchanging Carols

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“I think there's as much profundity and wisdom in Shakespeare, more so in fact, than those in the Bible.”

Thinking Facts Profundity

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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.”

People Thinking Book Might Views

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“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.”

People Thinking Needs Use Comedy Jokes Contemplation Guts

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“I always think that, even when people behave badly, if you like something deep inside them, then there is a tiny bit of nobility - they wish they could be good.”

People Ifs Thinking Wish Bits Be Good Tiny Behave Nobility Like Something Deep Inside

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“I've met people who've dismissed me, and then they find out that they like my work, and suddenly their attitude changes toward me. And I think that's very funny and very human. But it's also very unattractive.”

People Thinking Humans Attitude Mets Unattractive

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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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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“Comedy can be silly and gross and offensive, as long as there's sort of a point. You can make a joke that, on the face of it, is racist. Ostensibly someone can appear to be racist, but if you know you're making a point about race, and not just being pig-headed, then you can do that. I think some people who don't understand comedy will have a knee-jerk reaction to some stuff, and will always be offended by it because they don't understand it. Some people react to it in a vociferous way, which is unsophisticated, but there's always going to be those people out there.”

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“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.”

Thinking Bigs Reality Comedy Truthful Being Truthful

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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.”

Thinking World Kind Term Known Hollywood Mainstream

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“I don't think there's anything outside what comedy can address.”

Thinking Comedy Addresses

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“I think it's always funny when you see kids do Shakespeare.”

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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.”

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“When I see friends from school I think they've all grown old and I've stayed the same.”

Thinking School

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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.”

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About the Author

Born: October 14, 1965
Known for: Actor
Quotes: 138

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