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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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Greater Manchester
Stephen John Coogan
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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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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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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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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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In my mind God made Adam and Eve, he didn't make Adam and Steve.
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I'm just attracted to playing people who are ostensible unlikable. That's not to say that there's something in there that makes you care. It might be that you just find them so awful that you just can't stop watching, like a car crash.
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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.
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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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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 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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I enjoy comedy but it can become wearisome.
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Actually, bizarrely, in America, I get more appreciation from the odd, unusual stuff I've done, almost because I'm not, if you like, famous in America as I am in England.
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