225 Quotes by Steve Coogan

The fundamentalists are insistent that they know best. It's a dictatorial attitude towards personal morality, which is a modern creation that came about in the 19th century.

I like to do movies that provoke rather than reinforce conservative values.

A lot of people can be very scared about making themselves vulnerable and appearing uncool. I don't really give a damn; as long as it's funny, I'll do it [make fun of myself].

I'm not elitist. I like to do crowd-pleasing stuff which is a bit smart, but is just about belly laughs.

That's what gives people hope - that you can still love someone from afar and you can still have those feelings across an ocean.

The one thing that gives you faith is the fact that people can be apart physically but they can still have an emotional connection.

No one has a monopoly on wisdom, and even for people who aren't religious, you can learn things from religious people.

I'm not like a politician that goes around talking about family values. And I can't get fired from being a funny person because I did something that most people are disapproving of. I think people are just obsessed with this morality that people perceive as being the right and wrong way of doing stuff.

If you're driving your car and someone winds the window down and gives you the finger and calls you an asshole, instead of giving him the finger back and calling him an asshole back, you just pull a funny face, and he doesn't know how to react to that, because you're using different rules.