Steve Coogan Quotes

What's more interesting are the dynamics between people that involve hypocrisy or ignoring each other. That's what I want to write about. I like to make people uncomfortable because it's something we should be uncomfortable about.

What is it about silence that makes people uneasy?

Embarrassment felt a lot like eating chili peppers. It burned in the back of your throat and there was nothing you could do to make it go away. You just had to take it, suffer from it, until it eased off.

People don't know. We don't know ourselves so we tell ourselves what we really know is other people. We could say the depth of pain we feel for the lovers who've left us is because we knew them so well.

I love making people uncomfortable, and when people say, 'I cringed watching [that] scene,' that's the biggest compliment you can give me.

I see people, as they approach me, trying to make up their minds whether they'll 'say something about it' or not. I hate if they do, and if they don't.

There are a lot of difficult situations that lead to awkwardness.

I always ask myself one question: what is human? What does it mean to be human? Maybe people will consider my new films brutal again. But this violence is just a reflection of what they really are, of what is in each one of us to certain degree.

The worst of faces still is human.

I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.

On True Blood — I've never told anybody this—but I was so nervous and I was so drunk that after I shot the scene I was going up to the crew members — and I had just met all these people the day before — and I was going up to all of them like, 'You got a boner! You do! You've got one!' It was horrible. Horrible!

Whenever there's a nude scene, it's always uneasy. You're not in the comfort of your own home with your significant other.

It is awkward to listen to oneself being praised, and I was always a shy man.

I get the strange urge to hit my head against the wall. Other people's sobs make me feel uncomfortable.

Discomfort of any kind becomes the basis for practice. We breathe in knowing our pain is shared.

what was fang going to do BLOG about max throwing herself into space so she wouldn't have to kiss him again? NO instead he smashed his fist against the cave wall then grimaced at the pain and stupidity seeing his bloodied knuckles

Being human is difficult. Some people make it more difficult than others. I was one of those people.

There's always something that happens where I go, 'Oh, that was so awkward!'

Awkwardness and feeling alienated are always going to be a part of comedy.

I’m very shy, I feel very awkward.

Life is painful. It has thorns, like the stem of a rose. Culture and art are the roses that bloom on the stem. The flower is yourself, your humanity. Art is the liberation of the humanity inside yourself.

You meet people who are in pain in life and love and you forgive them for behaving the way they do.

That said, it was pretty awkward and a weird thing to shoot. Some women had a sense of humour about it and we'd laugh, but some were very serious and suspicious... like I might be doing something bad, or maybe they were just uncomfortable.

He scratched his ear, the infallible resource to which embarrassed people have recourse.

What hurts people a lot is taking humiliation.