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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: 58
Born: 1965
Born: October 14
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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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The tabloids operate in an amoral parallel universe where the bottom line is selling newspapers.
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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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Convoy? Michael, you're hanging around with a man who uses a collective term for a single vehicle.
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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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I enjoy comedy but it can become wearisome.
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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.
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It is not true that sex degrades women... if it is any good.
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What terrifies me is that I might somehow endorse that view so people think they don't have to read books anymore.
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But with comedy it's a simple premise. If it's funny, people laugh. If it's not, they don't.
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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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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 woke with a start. At first I assumed I'd trumped myself awake again.
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There is a strong ethical dimension to the best comedy. Not only does it avoid reinforcing prejudices, it actively challenges them.
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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.
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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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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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I'm a single guy now and can do what I like. As my agent said, so long as it's not a live man or a dead woman, I'll be fine. And that, hand on heart, is unlikely to happen.
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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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