Famous quotes by Steve Coogan:

"I went on tour and I wouldn't say I was bored with the Perrier show but I started doing this stuff that wasn't as charming as the Perrier show."

"[When asked if he] remembered someone called Courtney ... Yes, I do remember someone called Courtney but I'm not prepared to talk about it because I don't talk about those kind of things."

"It's a post-modern classic written way before there was any modernism to be post about."

"a womb with a view."

"And on that bombshell ..."

"This isn't the Gulf War, Michael. Which ironically IS like a big petrol station."

"Actors say they do their own stunts for the integrity of the film but I did them because they looked like a lot of fun."

"Me, myself, personally, I like to keep myself private. I have never said I am a paragon of virtue, a model of morality. I simply do what I do."

"Most of all I don't want to be bored. That's why I'd rather do something that has some sort of ambition, that risks failing, rather than make safer, more comfortable choices."

"I like the transience of Klimt paintings."

"When you tour you become more intimate with your audience. It's like I need reassurance that they like me or at least find me relevant. And that I can still do it."

"I wasn't a naturally confident, extravert, outgoing person."

"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."

"When I was a student I was very, very ambitious, completely immersed in my comedy career. I never had that period of reckless hedonism that you should get out of your system in your youth."

"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."

"But with comedy it's a simple premise. If it's funny, people laugh. If it's not, they don't."

"Yeah, all drama teachers are very effusive, very demonstrative, very emotionally open, very big, and gesticulate a lot, and are very physical."

"There's something quite joyful about doing comedy which doesn't really need much analysis. I'm not elitist. I like to do crowd-pleasing stuff which is a bit smart, but is just about belly laughs."

"The great thing is that the funny side of getting old is fuel for my comedy."

"I find impressionists slightly annoying, really."