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I happen to have a public profile. Ditto newspaper editors. It's a result of what I do, not an end.

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Steve Coogan
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: October 14
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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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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'm 47, my girlfriend's 33 she's 14 years younger than me: Back of the net!
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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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Most of all I don't want to be bored. That's why I'd rather do something that has some sort of ambition, that risks failing, rather than make safer, more comfortable choices.
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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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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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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 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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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.
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That's what gives people hope - that you can still love someone from afar and you can still have those feelings across an ocean.
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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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What terrifies me is that I might somehow endorse that view so people think they don't have to read books anymore.
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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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Convoy? Michael, you're hanging around with a man who uses a collective term for a single vehicle.
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I like to do movies that provoke rather than reinforce conservative values.
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