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I did not become successful in my work through embracing or engaging in celebrity culture. I never signed away my privacy in exchange for success.

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Steve Coogan
Age: 58
Born: 1965
Born: October 14
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To me, most theatre looks ridiculous. I find it very difficult to do. Personally, if I ever try to do serious stuff, I always end up looking like an asshole, so I might as well try and do comedy, because I'm good at that.
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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.
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I don't think there's anything outside what comedy can address.
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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.
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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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The tabloids operate in an amoral parallel universe where the bottom line is selling newspapers.
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I'm getting older , so I'm quieting down a bit.
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The great thing is that the funny side of getting old is fuel for my comedy.
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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.
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In my mind God made Adam and Eve, he didn't make Adam and Steve.
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I woke with a start. At first I assumed I'd trumped myself awake again.
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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.
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When I play myself, I want to be a slightly better person. It just agrees. Everything I play about myself is kind of true, but it's amplified. We all edit, don't we? If you're self-aware, you stop yourself - you know how to behave properly.
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I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy.
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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.
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The Church at its best is about empowering the disempowered and giving voice to the dispossessed and not putting a price on everything and not being about the bottom line and not worshipping the market or everything that is material.
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I am lucky to be in a profession that is not age dependent.
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