Steve Coogan Quotes

I did 'Love's Labour's Lost' in the theater and found it to be riotously funny.

I think it's always funny when you see kids do Shakespeare.

I like drama as well. When I played Hamlet, I got one review that said, "This must surely be the funniest Hamlet in history," but schoolgirls would still cry when he died.

I'm a big lover of Shakespeare. In fact, the only plays that I've ever done professionally in New York have been Shakespearian.

I can relate to anything. I once played Macbeth. I got a lot of laughs, so I quit.

I'm as thrilled watching Mark Rylance do Shakespeare as I am watching 'The Book of Mormon.'

You know I'm an actress, not just a funny lady.

I think Mercutio in 'Romeo and Juliet' would be my favorite role. I've never played it, but I would love to do it.

I trained in Shakespeare, and that's all comedy, even when it's tragedy.

I've never really had a desire to do Shakespeare. For me, it's just too many lines.

I acted in high school and studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford for one summer. I minored in theater, and I was always acting growing up, but really, I was just more interested in the comedy of it all.

My father used to act in high school. He was in a production of 'Othello;' I don't know who he played, but it wasn't Othello. He would talk about it, though, and read Shakespeare to me.

I try to find humor in everything I do, because I think all great plays - even great tragedies - have enormous humor in them.

I played a lot of character parts in school.

I never understand when people say, 'Do you do comedy or tragedy?' I don't think they're very much different. They both have to be true, and there isn't a great play in the world that doesn't have funny parts to it - as 'Salesman' does, as 'King Lear' does. The whole idea is to reflect life in some way, which means surely you have to have both.

Someday I'd love to do Shakespeare.

You have to just enjoy yourself sometimes, and the audience will, too. Not every role has to be 'The Taming of the Shrew.'

Creating a wonderful drama is an art form, while comedy is just entertainment.

With any character I play, I gravitate to the juxtaposition and humor.

I haven't played Hedda Gabler yet, but maybe if I did I might find the funny bits.

Yes, it's true, I've been called the Laurence Olivier of spoofs. I guess that would make Laurence Olivier the Leslie Nielsen of Shakespeare.

I loved doing Shakespeare. My two favorite roles, in fact, have been Viola in Twelfth Night and Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream.

I was like the class clown in school so I guess I would say I did like the attention. In church I did a lot of plays, my mother made me play characters, do a lot of drama and acting, trying to become someone else. So it helped me create who I am, to create Snoop Dogg.

I've done a lot of Shakespeare as a young man; I was involved with Shakespeare and Company.

People think comedians don't do drama. Comics are drama. And what is drama, as opposed to comedy? It's all the same to me.