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I want my work to be judged, not me.
Steve Coogan
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Steve Coogan
Age: 58
Born: 1965
Born: October 14
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Greater Manchester
Stephen John Coogan
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When I was a student I was very, very ambitious, completely immersed in my comedy career. I never had that period of reckless hedonism that you should get out of your system in your youth.
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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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I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy.
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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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If you start to disrespect the character you're playing, or play it too much for laughs, that can work for a sketch, it will sell some gags, but it's all technique. It's like watching a juggler - you can be impressed by it, but it's not going to touch you in any way.
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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.
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I woke with a start. At first I assumed I'd trumped myself awake again.
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I love Sherlock Holmes. I've got all his books, leather-bound. What I thought was great about Sherlock Holmes was that not only was he a supersleuth, he was also a hard worker. Not only did he go out and solve the crimes, he came home and wrote it all down. Fantastic. That's why I admire him.
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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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I'm 47, my girlfriend's 33 she's 14 years younger than me: Back of the net!
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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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I enjoy comedy but it can become wearisome.
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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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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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Most of all I don't want to be bored. That's why I'd rather do something that has some sort of ambition, that risks failing, rather than make safer, more comfortable choices.
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All those people who go around saying Life begins at forty, they're notable by their absence. The nerve.
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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 have never wanted to be famous, as such - fame is a by-product.
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It's arguably the best newspaper in the world.
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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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