All drama teachers are very effusive, very emotionally open, very big, and gesticulate a lot, and are very physical. Those people don't work in banks and they don't work for pharmaceutical companies. They teach drama, or they may be theatre directors. That's why 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.
Steve CooganActors say they do their own stunts for the integrity of the film but I did them because they looked like a lot of fun.
Steve CooganI 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 CooganThe tabloids operate in an amoral parallel universe where the bottom line is selling newspapers.
Steve CooganI 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