Steve Coogan Quotes

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

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

When I was younger, I acted in some Shakespeare stuff; I did one Shakespeare camp.

Someday I'd love to do Shakespeare.

I was in 20 Shakespearean plays by the time I was 20.

I'm just an entertainer. All I want to be is funny. I never aspired to play Hamlet.

I love comedy, and I always wanted to go that way, but I felt so passionate about drama.

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

I have grown up loving Shakespeare.

I don't fool myself. I can't see myself doing Shakespeare.

Comedy and drama are both challenging to me.

I played comedies and dramas.

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.

But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.

I like to do comedy, but I'll be perfectly honest, I prefer to do drama and more character-driven-based stuff, generally.

Shakespeare is rich and beautiful, and it can be an amazing experience to read and to watch and to work on.

I started out doing theater in New York. I used to go to Shakespeare in the Park a lot.

I went to drama school. I'm classically trained; I studied Shakespeare, blah blah blah. But I always preferred to do Oscar Wilde, or Shakespeare's comedies over his dramas.

Perhaps because my background is theatrical, I have a great affinity with the classics. Hamlet has always been a character of great interest to me and a character I would really love to play. Or a character in a Tennessee Williams play, maybe Tom in 'The Glass Menagerie.'

As an actress and comedienne, I'm a huge fan of he theatre and the Tricycle in Kilburn is my favourite in London. I dragged my kids to a performance of 'Twelfth Night' there, where they handed out pizza. Who knew that all it takes to get children interested in Shakespeare is a snack?

I don't know, I'd love to try some theater. That's my other thing. I'd love to do some Shakespeare.

I consider myself an actor who is funny.

I think comedy's harder to pull off on the screen than on the stage, anyway. Tragedy is easier on the screen... oddly enough.

I would love to do Shakespeare, either onstage or on film.

My mother taught Shakespeare and used to act.