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I don't think there's anything outside what comedy can address.
Steve Coogan
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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 have never wanted to be famous, as such - fame is a by-product.
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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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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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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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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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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 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.
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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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In my mind God made Adam and Eve, he didn't make Adam and Steve.
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Hacking into a victim of crime's phone is a sort of poetically elegant manifestation of a modus operandi the tabloids have.
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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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Going to a grammar school, you mixed with all sorts of different types and I used to listen to how they talked. When I did my imitations, I could sound like someone really rough, or I could sound like a cabinet minister.
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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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As soon as I see period costume, I turn off. It's like hearing drama on Radio 4.
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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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But with comedy it's a simple premise. If it's funny, people laugh. If it's not, they don't.
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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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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.
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