225 Quotes by Steve Coogan

I don’t think I’m kind of universally known. I think in the indie world I’m probably better known than in some mainstream Hollywood terms.

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.

I’m 47, my girlfriend’s 33; she’s 14 years younger than me, back of the net!

I used to do stuff at college. I could do voices. I could make some people laugh. I wasn’t the class clown, but I knew I had this skill.

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.

Guide dogs for the blind. It’s cruel really, isn’t it? Getting a dog to lead a man round all day. Not fair on either of them.

I use improvisation as a writing tool to help produce material that goes into a script, but a well-crafted script shouldn’t sound scripted, and oftentimes people confuse something that looks like improvisation for what is actually a very well-written script that is well-acted.

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

I love people who are openly gay in theatre, because they have license to do what they like, and there’s a kind of artistic liberal tolerance thing that goes on.