Author: Steve Coogan

Quotes

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.

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

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

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

- Steve Coogan

What I don't like is dance music or hip hop or any of that sort of thing.

What I don't like is dance music or hip hop or any of that sort of thing.

- Steve Coogan

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.

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.

- Steve Coogan

But with comedy it's a simple premise. If it's funny, people laugh. If it's not, they don't.

But with comedy it's a simple premise. If it's funny, people laugh. If it's not, they don't.

- Steve Coogan

Actually, bizarrely, in America, I get more appreciation from the odd, unusual stuff I've done, almost because I'm not, if you like, famous in America as I am in England.

Actually, bizarrely, in America, I get more appreciation from the odd, unusual stuff I've done, almost because I'm not, if you like, famous in America as I am in England.

- Steve Coogan

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