Steve Coogan Quotes

I think for me the trick is not to aim to impress or to even try to make people laugh but instead to tell the truth.

You have to be quite brave to write about something that you honestly feel and think.

I think it's a sacrifice that you have to make, because you lay yourself open for people to accuse and disrespect you. But it's worth it. It's worth it because not too many people are too honest anymore.

You just can't take yourself too seriously, especially in comedy. You shouldn't try to be funny, but you should try to be as honest as possible. The extreme end of honesty is usually what's funny. That's your job [as an actor]. You just have to let people see it.

I think comedy stems from being honest, often painfully so. I hope I can achieve that perspective in my own life and also have fun.

I would not want to write something about something I do not think about.

I feel like my secret magic trick that separates me from a lot of my peers is the bravery to be vulnerable and truthful and honest.

I never told a joke in my life.

I love that I can tell the truth and have people laugh at it.

You have to have courage to look back and be honest about your own drama.

In the process of looking for comedy, you have to be deeply honest. And in doing that, you'll find out here's the other side. You'll be looking under the rock occasionally for the laughter.

I have always said what is in my heart.

I strive for honesty because I think that's where the funniest stuff comes from.

You have to be so honest in comedy.

Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.

What I like about stand-up is, it's truthful. I'm not up there trying to get laid or look cool. I'm up there because I really love it, and it makes people happier.

Courage originally meant "To speak one's mind by telling all one's heart

truth is a letter from courage!

What can we give a child when there is nothing left? All we have, I think, is the truth, the truth that will set him free, not limited, provable truth, but the open, growing, evolving truth that is not afraid.

There is no merit in being truthful when one is truthful by nature, or rather when one can be nothing else; it is a gift, like poetry or music. But it needs courage to be truthful after carefully considering the matter, unless a kind of pride is involved; for example, the man who says to himself, "I am ugly," and then says, "I am ugly" to his friends, lest they should think themselves the first to make the discovery.

I always feel the need to give the unfiltered truth, (or) what I think is the truth, at least.

I say what's in my head, and I'm on honest ground. That is worth so much, and I think it does make my job, as a writer, easier. It makes it possible for me to give people stuff that they like.

The moment I do any puppy dog acting, I think the joke is dead. It's in the truth of how I play it, and the real painful honesty that I approach my performance with.

I think whatever comes natural is probably the truth, and the truth is the strongest form of anything - whether serious or funny.

It is rare for people to be asked the question which puts them squarely in front of themselves