I'm gonna hump ya. Like Deputy Dog... Would hump ya. Steve Coogan More Quotes by Steve Coogan More Quotes From Steve Coogan If you got the balls to follow something through, you can end up being the coolest, smartest guy in the room, because you've literally put your ass on the line. Steve Coogan balls lines guy I don't like big feet. It reminds me of gammon. Steve Coogan bigs feet funny If you chase something too desperately, it eludes you. Steve Coogan elude-you elude-us elude I do like to make people cringe. That discomfort, tension, embarrassment, pain - all of those things interest me, and not through some sort of masochistic or sadistic impulse. It illuminates what being a human being is. It taps into what it is to be human more incisively than stuff that's just very pedestrian. Steve Coogan sadistic pain people If things don't come easy to you, you have to pull a rabbit out of a hat. Steve Coogan hats easy rabbits The truth is somewhere in the middle of funny and serious. Steve Coogan truth-is middle serious People come up to me in supermarkets and demand humour. And the less amusing I am, the more they piss themselves. So I say, "I'm doing my shopping, mate, OK?" and the guy will be on the floor in hysterics. Quite odd. Eventually I do have to say something funny so I usually go for something pathetic like, "It's a nice place to shop but I wouldn't like to live here!" and they roar again. Wet themselves. I'm lucky though that I am not massively famous, I can get the Tube without much bother. Must be awful being the Beckhams. Steve Coogan shopping nice people The Bible, undoubtedly, is a mixed bag. I don't see myself coming back to the Church. I do like the tradition. If you come from a strong culture, you can decide what you agree with and what you don't agree with. If you're given a blank canvas, it's almost harder in life. Steve Coogan church strong culture It's like aversion therapy. You keep doing scenes over and over again with three women in the bed with you, and we had to do them all in one week. Three girls would step out and another three girls would step into the bed. It sounds like a fantasy but by the end of it, I just wanted to go for a hike on my own in the north of England, in the hills. Because it became a sort of "be careful what you wish for" kinda thing. Steve Coogan bed girl wish Actually the best thing I did was to get thrown out by my wife. She's living with a fitness instructor. He drinks that yellow stuff in tins. He's an idiot. Steve Coogan wife yellow funny I think there's as much profundity and wisdom in Shakespeare, more so in fact, than those in the Bible. Steve Coogan profundity facts thinking If it was just the potatoes that were affected, at the end of the day you will pay the price if you're a fussy eater. Steve Coogan pay-the-price the-end-of-the-day funny 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. Steve Coogan bored choices ambition I like the transience of Klimt paintings. Steve Coogan transience painting To me, most theatre looks ridiculous. I find it very difficult to do. Personally, if I ever try to do serious stuff, I always end up looking like an asshole, so I might as well try and do comedy, because I'm good at that. Steve Coogan theatre trying looks That was liquid football Steve Coogan liquid football funny 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. Steve Coogan dog men funny I'm a huge fan of Jack Lemmon, he was someone who managed to tread that line between comedy and tragedy and sometimes give very big performances, but they were never over-demonstrative and they were never not based on a kind of real truthful human being. Steve Coogan tragedy real giving I think it's always funny when you see kids do Shakespeare. When I was at school, I was in Hamlet. I played Claudius, who's supposed to be a 60-year-old man, and I was like 18. It's inherently ridiculous seeing 18-year-old boys with gray beards. That's always funny. Steve Coogan boys kids school Two thousand years ago, the Holy family had a ramble from Nazareth to Bethlehem - in much the same way as I'm having a ramble from Norwich to Swaffham. Although I'm not comparing myself to Jesus - I don't want to get bogged down in that whole controversy again. Steve Coogan christmas years jesus
