Steve Coogan Quotes

I sometimes wonder how many of these lifetime achievement awards you can accept before you have to do the decent thing and die.

I'm not a hero or a superstar. I'm an everyday guy. I feel happy when children approach me. I feel that something good is happening in life when little kids recognise me.

I don't want to be the guy who goes, 'Oh yeah, blah blah blah... everyone freaking well knows me.' Because that's not the case. Once in a while, someone will remember some silly thing I did and then they feel good. And they go, 'Oh, hey, Michael Bolton, I celebrate your whole catalog.' And I'm like, 'Great, great, I totally get it.'

There are people who've enjoyed my work in the theater, and they let me know that it was special for them. I'm not going to say, 'Well, you should have seen me as Gandalf!'

If people want to put me up on their walls, I'll love it.

I'm very thankful that I can make people happy just by signing my name.

I'm really proud of Twilight. I think it's a good movie. It was hard to do, and I think it turned out pretty good. But I don't take much credit for it. So when you show up at these places, and there's literally like a thousand girls and they're all screaming your name, you're like, why? You don't feel like you deserve it.

Actually, nobody has ever given me an award, and also, it's not really important in my life. I go to these award shows for meeting my friends.

I did not know that I was being called the 'Sandalwood Princess.' It definitely feels good, but more than such titles, it is their love and affection behind such titles that makes me happy.

Men seek fame and high places only to learn that they were happier in obscurity

One does not want glory accepted as a matter of course. One wants to shock and astonish people with it.

Any hand that I've shaken, any person that I met when I was Joe Blow, now that I'm this guy Kevin Hart, has come back. That's why I treat everybody with respect. I'm always a nice pleasant guy to meet because when they come back to you, they remember.

I do feel very honored to get all this attention. Basically, what I need to do is to go out there and perform. That's what I'm intending to do.

Talent is God-given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be thankful. Conceit is self-given; be careful.

We're really happy. It still kind of blows my mind that people watch the show!

I never got why actors don't like it when a fan comes up to them on the street. It is cool that someone recognizes what you do and makes you feel like you live in a community.

I don't sense that I am someone's hero, though I'm happy when people like my work. I've learned how to be gracious about it, but I try to let it go by. I've seen how, if people start taking on those accolades, it can ruin them completely.

It is a good thing to happen to you, to have that taste of fame because then you don't hanker for it.

I was brought up by great parents and great grandparents who told me, 'Never, ever think that you're better than anyone else or that what you do is so important that the world won't miss you once you're gone,' and I kind of translate that into the stardom thing.

I won't complain about touring, because I really do believe that a public-figure musician complaining about being a public-figure musician is just absurd. Like, 'Boo hoo hoo! I have to stand on stage and people pay attention to me!'

I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored.

I was saluted by Alex Ferguson when I was subbed and that made me very happy.

The people who ask me for my autograph are the people who've put me here today, and you can't afford to forget that.

As I've gotten older, I realize how important my fans are and that I'm here because of them and not the other way around.

They do not air 'GH' in Holland, so I don't get recognized. But the Dutch are wonderfully unimpressed with celebrity, so even if the show did play over there it probably wouldn't affect things much. It's a wonderful life and I am so blessed.