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Steve Coogan

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  • “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

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  • “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

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  • “But with comedy it’s a simple premise. If it’s funny, people laugh. If it’s not, they don’t.” -Steve Coogan

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  • “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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  • “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

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  • “I’m just attracted to playing people who are ostensible unlikable. That’s not to say that there’s something in there that makes you care. It might be that you just find them so awful that you just can’t stop watching, like a car crash.” -Steve Coogan

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