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.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It's interesting that a lot of female artists want to collaborate with me.
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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.
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The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.
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I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.
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The only interesting thing that can happen in a Swiss bedroom is suffocation by feather mattress.
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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.
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It's sort of interesting how, when you get older, things that were once so important sort of fall away.
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I think there is a chance that Indian writers in America will start producing very interesting books in the years to come.
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I wasn't a glamour-puss, and there were more interesting roles for an actress like me in the theater and in live television.
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You know how interesting the purchase of a sponge-cake is to me.
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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.
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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.
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When politics is interesting, people go vote.
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There's that area, right there, where you can be too hard on yourself or you need to be really hard on yourself - I'm trying to ride that line by telling myself that I can always write better, sing better, what can we do to make the show more interesting? Pretend that you're the guy who's been in the front row for the last five shows; what would make it new for you?
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Having it all means different things to different people. I think it's an individual choice. Nothing is perfect. Everyone makes sacrifices. For me, it's worked out well. I have children. I have a very interesting career. But it's not for everybody.
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I think we are a company that thrives on a good challenge.
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Someone like Roman Polanski comes with a lifetime of achievement, cinematically.
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Everyone wants immediate success, immediate celebrity, and that doesn't produce what used to be artists.
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Even great people are always slightly disappointing, which is generally what makes them interesting.
