Steve Coogan (Stephen John Coogan) Quotes

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

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• Women in their 40s have gone through quite a few different things, and so the roles are going to reflect that. People say, 'Oh, it's done by 40,' and now everyone knows it's not. I actually feel like the roles are a lot more interesting.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • People
  • Different
  • Women

• When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • You
  • Interesting
  • Study

• When I'm around black or white people, I'm always in the middle. Especially when I am around black people; they will really tell how they feel about white people regardless of the fact that I'm also white and have white relatives. It's very interesting and can be really hard.

  

  Karyn Parsons
  • People
  • Black
  • Interesting

• So I didn't have anything to do with picking the songs, but I got to musically take them in places I thought might be interesting, so it was a real neat collaboration among the three of us.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Real
  • Interesting
  • Thought

• It was just this interesting, my first, the first time you hear your child in any way criticise you. It's the worst review of your life and it's really relieving to find out that they don't know what they're saying.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Life
  • Time
  • Interesting

• It's interesting that a lot of female artists want to collaborate with me.

  

  Maluma
  • Want
  • Interesting
  • Artists

• I understand entertaining. You want people to walk out saying, 'I spent a night with interesting people.'

  

  Aby Rosen
  • People
  • Night
  • Interesting

• The most interesting letters I received about 'The Name of the Rose' were from people in the Midwest that maybe didn't understand exactly, but wanted to understand more and who were excited by this picture of a world which was not their own.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • People
  • World
  • Interesting

• The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Interesting
  • Question
  • Computers

• I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.

  

  A. Scott Berg
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Only

• The only interesting thing that can happen in a Swiss bedroom is suffocation by feather mattress.

  

  Dalton Trumbo
  • Interesting
  • Happen
  • Bedroom

• Most of my characters are an amalgamation of people that I've met, my family, or myself. Being a writer, you can draw only from what you know. I am lucky to have really rich and interesting people in my family for, you know, interesting family nights and great characters.

  

  Lake Bell
  • People
  • Great
  • Family

• It's sort of interesting how, when you get older, things that were once so important sort of fall away.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Important
  • Interesting
  • Fall

• I think there is a chance that Indian writers in America will start producing very interesting books in the years to come.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • America
  • Interesting
  • Chance

• I wasn't a glamour-puss, and there were more interesting roles for an actress like me in the theater and in live television.

  

  Nancy Marchand
  • Live
  • Interesting
  • Me

• You know how interesting the purchase of a sponge-cake is to me.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Interesting

• What's interesting is, in the months leading up to this, I was probably at the lowest ebb in my life. I was feeling just teenage angst. I didn't know if I wanted to continue living - that kind of despair. I was praying to a God I didn't know was listening.

  

  Bono U2
  • Life
  • Up
  • God

• Soon I worked during twelve years in theater works of the prestigious Theatre National Populaire. It was the best time of my life, the most difficult, the most interesting, the most exciting.

  

  Maurice Jarre
  • Life
  • Time
  • Interesting

• God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.

  

  Chester W. Nimitz
  • Up
  • God
  • Courage

• For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Peace
  • Peaceful
  • Imperialism

• In the highly improbable event of his being asked to nominate the one most un-Jewish thing he could think of, Sefton Goldberg would have been hard pressed to decide between Nature – that's to say birds, trees, flowers, and country walks – and football – that's to say beer, bikies, mud, and physical pain.

  

  Howard Jacobson
  • Country
  • Nature
  • Pain

• No actor in the world started off at the top.

  

  Daniela Ruah
  • World

• When I'm writing, it's because I'm trying to figure something out for myself. If I don't believe in what I've written, then how can I expect anyone else to believe in that, either?

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • Believe
  • Writing
  • Trying

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

  

  Steve Coogan
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  • Great People