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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.
- Steve Coogan
#Comedy
#Never
#Student
#System
#Youth
There is a strong ethical dimension to the best comedy. Not only does it avoid reinforcing prejudices, it actively challenges them.
- Steve Coogan
#Avoid
#Best
#Challenges
#Comedy
#Strong
As soon as I see period costume, I turn off. It's like hearing drama on Radio 4.
- Steve Coogan
#Drama
#I See
#Radio
#See
#Turn
I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy. Making people laugh one moment and the next making them feel really uncomfortable.
- Steve Coogan
#Laugh
#Moment
#People
#Uncomfortable
If you do something very successful, you will then be defined by it.
- Steve Coogan
#Something
#Successful
#Then
#Very
#Will
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.
- Steve Coogan
#Culture
#Never
#Privacy
#Success
#Work
I always find it easier to portray myself as being unlikeable and idiotic; to actually play a character that is likeable and engages the audience is far more difficult. It's a more subtle kind of challenge.
- Steve Coogan
#Character
#Difficult
#Find
#Myself
#Play
Actors say they do their own stunts for the integrity of the film but I did them because they looked like a lot of fun.
- Steve Coogan
#Film
#Fun
#Integrity
#Own
#Say
But with comedy it's a simple premise. If it's funny, people laugh. If it's not, they don't.
- Steve Coogan
#Comedy
#Funny
#Laugh
#People
#Simple
People regurgitate the same old cliches and it becomes like a photocopy of a photocopy of something that's vaguely interesting.
- Steve Coogan
#Interesting
#Old
#People
#Something
When you see a crowd of people jumping up and down at a pop concert, all gloriously in the moment, I don't think you'll ever see a comedian there. They'll all be standing at the sides, looking at how it all fits together.
- Steve Coogan
#Looking
#Moment
#People
#See
#Together
What I don't like is dance music or hip hop or any of that sort of thing.
- Steve Coogan
#Dance Music
#Dance
#Like
#Music
#Thing
I am of the very last generation who didn't have computers at school. As we grow old we'll become something of an aberration.
- Steve Coogan
#Computers
#Generation
#Grow
#I Am
#Old
If you chase something too desperately, it eludes you.
- Steve Coogan
#Chase
#Eludes
#Something
#Too
#You
If you are a great dramatic actor then you often don't know if people are enjoying your stuff at all because they are sitting there in silence. But with comedy it's a simple premise. If it's funny, people laugh. If it's not, they don't.
- Steve Coogan
#Funny
#Great
#Laugh
#Silence
#Simple
I have never wanted to be famous, as such - fame is a by-product.
- Steve Coogan
#By-Product
#Fame
#Famous
#Never
#Wanted
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