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I woke with a start. At first I assumed I'd trumped myself awake again.

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Steve Coogan
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: October 14
Actor
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Middleton
Greater Manchester
Stephen John Coogan
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I always find it easier to portray myself as being unlikeable and idiotic to actually play a character that is likeable and engages the audience is far more difficult. It's a more subtle kind of challenge.
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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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What I don't like is dance music or hip hop or any of that sort of thing.
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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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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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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 have never wanted to be famous, as such - fame is a by-product.
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When I see friends from school I think they've all grown old and I've stayed the same.
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In England, I've done a whole bunch of stuff where I just make a complete ass of myself. I've been doing it for 20 years, so I just gravitate toward it anyway. I'd rather do that than do the stuff where I'm supposed to be trying to look cool in some way. It's more interesting to me.
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