Quote

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.

Steve Coogan

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Steve Coogan
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: October 14
Actor
Autobiographer
Comedian
Composer
Film Actor
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Middleton
Greater Manchester
Stephen John Coogan
Best
Towards
Morality
Creation
Personal
Attitude
Century
Dictatorial
Modern
Insistent
Came
Fundamentalists

More quotes by Steve Coogan

Image
I want my work to be judged, not me.
Steve Coogan
Image
What I don't like is dance music or hip hop or any of that sort of thing.
Steve Coogan
Image
I like the British public. There is something in this country called tall poppy syndrome. You're good but you're not that good, pal, OK? The natural state of our nation is slightly miserable, and probably the healthier for it. In America you don't get a key down the side of your Bentley.
Steve Coogan
Image
The tabloids operate in an amoral parallel universe where the bottom line is selling newspapers.
Steve Coogan
Image
I like the transience of Klimt paintings.
Steve Coogan
Image
I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy.
Steve Coogan
Image
It's arguably the best newspaper in the world.
Steve Coogan
Image
I'm a single guy now and can do what I like. As my agent said, so long as it's not a live man or a dead woman, I'll be fine. And that, hand on heart, is unlikely to happen.
Steve Coogan
Image
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.
Steve Coogan
Image
I think if you try to look for something to show off as an actor, vanity can get the better of you.
Steve Coogan
Image
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.
Steve Coogan
Image
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.
Steve Coogan
Image
Yeah, all drama teachers are very effusive, very demonstrative, very emotionally open, very big, and gesticulate a lot, and are very physical.
Steve Coogan
Image
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.
Steve Coogan
Image
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.
Steve Coogan
Image
That was liquid football
Steve Coogan
Image
When it comes to morality, I'd rather have an unfaithful president like Bill Clinton, who tried to reform welfare, than a faithful George Bush who propagated an illegal war on the rest of the world. So that is where my morality stands.
Steve Coogan
Image
Sadly, I can't say the same for my Father, who is probably in a different place - Hell.
Steve Coogan
Image
There is a strong ethical dimension to the best comedy. Not only does it avoid reinforcing prejudices, it actively challenges them.
Steve Coogan
Image
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.
Steve Coogan