Steve Coogan Quotes

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

Anyone can be an idealist. Anyone can be a cynic. The hard part lies somewhere in the middle.

The color of truth is gray.

I think the phrase that resonates from 'Just One Year' is something I sort of live by: 'The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.'

I guess I found it useful to realise that everything is true at once, you know? You can pull back and say, 'Everything will be fine,' but you can also be in a situation and say, 'Not everything is going to be fine.'

It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.

Truth is a tendency.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

You're never as good as people say you are and you're never as bad as people say you are. You're always in the middle at some stage.

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

It's well known there's always two sides, if no more.

There is always the other side, always.

Life has never been All or Nothing- it's All and Nothing. Forget the binaries.

Everything in life is gray, you know.

Neither with those nor with the others, with all I agree and dissent; in all part of truth and part of error must be seen.

When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you're painting it and white is never as white.

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

There are always two or three or four sides to every story.

What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny or serious. My response is that I will make up my mind when God does, because life is a commingling of the sacred and the profane, good and evil. To try and separate them is fallacy.

Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.

I don't accept the idea that there are two sides to any issue. I think that the middle ground is to be found within most of us.

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

To be a fashion critic is easy because you just say, 'I love it, I hate it,' but life is more than love and hate.

Two seemingly incompatible conceptions can each represent an aspect of the truth ... They may serve in turn to represent the facts without ever entering into direct conflict.