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

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Steve Coogan
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: October 14
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Stephen John Coogan
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I'm just attracted to playing people who are ostensible unlikable. That's not to say that there's something in there that makes you care. It might be that you just find them so awful that you just can't stop watching, like a car crash.
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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.
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I enjoy comedy but it can become wearisome.
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What I don't like is dance music or hip hop or any of that sort of thing.
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The tabloids operate in an amoral parallel universe where the bottom line is selling newspapers.
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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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Convoy? Michael, you're hanging around with a man who uses a collective term for a single vehicle.
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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].
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I want my work to be judged, not me.
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When I was a student I was very, very ambitious, completely immersed in my comedy career. I never had that period of reckless hedonism that you should get out of your system in your youth.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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I don't go to premieres, unless I'm contractually bound to.
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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.
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Sadly, I can't say the same for my Father, who is probably in a different place - Hell.
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The great thing is that the funny side of getting old is fuel for my comedy.
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There is a strong ethical dimension to the best comedy. Not only does it avoid reinforcing prejudices, it actively challenges them.
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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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