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I want my work to be judged, not me.

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 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.
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I woke with a start. At first I assumed I'd trumped myself awake again.
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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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When I see friends from school I think they've all grown old and I've stayed the same.
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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.
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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.
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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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I'm getting older , so I'm quieting down a bit.
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The great thing is that the funny side of getting old is fuel for my comedy.
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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've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy.
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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.
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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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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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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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I'm 47, my girlfriend's 33 she's 14 years younger than me: Back of the net!
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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 have never wanted to be famous, as such - fame is a by-product.
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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.
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