Quotes by Steve Coogan

About Steve Coogan:

Stephen John "Steve" Coogan is an English actor, stand-up comedian, impressionist, writer, and producer. He began his career in the 1980s, working as a voice artist on the satirical puppet show Spitting Image. In the early 1990s, he began creating original comic characters, leading him to win the Perrier Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. In 1999, he co-founded the production company Baby Cow Productions.
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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

I have never wanted to be famous, as such - fame is a by-product.

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.

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

Steve Coogan

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

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

Steve Coogan

I think it's always funny when you see kids do Shakespeare.

Steve Coogan

The great thing is that the funny side of getting old is fuel for my comedy.

Steve Coogan

My father worked for IBM. My mother raised us kids. There were six of us, and a couple of extra foster kids at any given time.

Steve Coogan

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

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

Steve Coogan

I don't like new bands. I don't want to be one of those pathetic old men in their forties who knows exactly what 18-year-olds are into.

Steve Coogan

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 touc...

Steve Coogan

I want my work to be judged, not me.

Steve Coogan

Author Bio

  • NameSteve Coogan
  • DescriptionEnglish actor and comedian
  • BornOctober 14, 1965
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionActor; Comedian; Screenwriter; Film Producer