Quote

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

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
War
Reform
Unfaithful
Comes
Bills
Illegal
Like
Morality
George
World
Tried
Bill
Clinton
Stands
Rest
Faithful
Rather
Bush
President
Welfare
Propagated

More quotes by 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
I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy.
Steve Coogan
Image
When you tour you become more intimate with your audience. It's like I need reassurance that they like me or at least find me relevant. And that I can still do it.
Steve Coogan
Image
If it was just the potatoes that were affected, at the end of the day you will pay the price if you're a fussy eater.
Steve Coogan
Image
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.
Steve Coogan
Image
I'm not like a politician that goes around talking about family values. And I can't get fired from being a funny person because I did something that most people are disapproving of. I think people are just obsessed with this morality that people perceive as being the right and wrong way of doing stuff.
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
Comedy is unique in the sense that laughter is a palpable noise that everyone makes.
Steve Coogan
Image
When I see friends from school I think they've all grown old and I've stayed the same.
Steve Coogan
Image
I want my work to be judged, not me.
Steve Coogan
Image
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.
Steve Coogan
Image
I woke with a start. At first I assumed I'd trumped myself awake again.
Steve Coogan
Image
What I don't like is dance music or hip hop or any of that sort of thing.
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
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.
Steve Coogan
Image
It is not true that sex degrades women... if it is any good.
Steve Coogan
Image
I think we all have a slightly gay gene inside us, don't we? It might be 0.00001 per cent as mine is, or one per cent as yours is.
Steve Coogan
Image
If the person who can effectively sanction ill-conceived wars can play the electric guitar, which is a symbol of rebellion, then that whole worldview becomes confused.
Steve Coogan
Image
The one thing that gives you faith is the fact that people can be apart physically but they can still have an emotional connection.
Steve Coogan
Image
The great thing is that the funny side of getting old is fuel for my comedy.
Steve Coogan