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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.

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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All those people who go around saying Life begins at forty, they're notable by their absence. The nerve.
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I like the transience of Klimt paintings.
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A woman wearing a revealing dress will always be sexier than a naked woman.
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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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I'm a huge fan of Jack Lemmon, he was someone who managed to tread that line between comedy and tragedy and sometimes give very big performances, but they were never over-demonstrative and they were never not based on a kind of real truthful human being.
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I have never wanted to be famous, as such - fame is a by-product.
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I did not become successful in my work through embracing or engaging in celebrity culture. I never signed away my privacy in exchange for success.
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I'm getting older , so I'm quieting down a bit.
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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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