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Steve Coogan

If you chase something too desperately, it eludes you.

— Steve Coogan you

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.

— Steve Coogan art

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.

— Steve Coogan funny

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 people

Even great people are always slightly disappointing, which is generally what makes them interesting.

— Steve Coogan people

If you do something very successful, you will then be defined by it.

— Steve Coogan success

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

I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy.

— Steve Coogan comedy

The tabloids operate in an amoral parallel universe where the bottom line is selling newspapers.

— Steve Coogan universe

I don't think I'm kind of universally known. I think in the indie world I'm probably better known than in some mainstream Hollywood terms.

— Steve Coogan world

Yeah, all drama teachers are very effusive, very demonstrative, very emotionally open, very big, and gesticulate a lot, and are very physical.

— Steve Coogan emotion

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.

— Steve Coogan truth

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 youth

When I see friends from school I think they've all grown old and I've stayed the same.

— Steve Coogan friends

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.

— Steve Coogan self

There is a strong ethical dimension to the best comedy. Not only does it avoid reinforcing prejudices, it actively challenges them.

— Steve Coogan men

Big comedy is good, I like things that are big, but good comedy has to be truthful I think and has to reflect some sort of reality.

— Steve Coogan truth

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 school

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 success

I find impressionists slightly annoying, really.

— Steve Coogan light

Going to a grammar school, you mixed with all sorts of different types and I used to listen to how they talked. When I did my imitations, I could sound like someone really rough, or I could sound like a cabinet minister.

— Steve Coogan school

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.

— Steve Coogan war

Hacking into a victim of crime's phone is a sort of poetically elegant manifestation of a modus operandi the tabloids have.

— Steve Coogan man

I happen to have a public profile. Ditto newspaper editors. It's a result of what I do, not an end.

— Steve Coogan end

People regurgitate the same old cliches and it becomes like a photocopy of a photocopy of something that's vaguely interesting.

— Steve Coogan people

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