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I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#about #computer #count #created #destructive

If you start to disrespect the character you're playing, or play it too much for laughs, that can work for a sketch, it will sell some gags, but it's all technique. It's like watching a juggler - you can be impressed by it, but it's not going to touch you in any way. ↗

— Steve Coogan

#character #disrespect #gags #going #impressed

Actors say they do their own stunts for the integrity of the film but I did them because they looked like a lot of fun. ↗

— Steve Coogan

#did #film #fun #i #integrity

Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#emotions #flowers #look #neither #nor

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#humble #love #loves #narcissism #part

Even great people are always slightly disappointing, which is generally what makes them interesting. ↗

— Steve Coogan

#disappointing #even #generally #great #great people

I always find it easier to portray myself as being unlikeable and idiotic; to actually play a character that is likeable and engages the audience is far more difficult. It's a more subtle kind of challenge. ↗

— Steve Coogan

#always #audience #being #challenge #character

I did not become successful in my work through embracing or engaging in celebrity culture. I never signed away my privacy in exchange for success. ↗

— Steve Coogan

#become #celebrity #celebrity culture #culture #did

'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories. ↗

— William James

#conceptual #experience #flux #furnishes #gave

I happen to have a public profile. Ditto newspaper editors. It's a result of what I do, not an end. ↗

— Steve Coogan

#end #happen #i #i do #newspaper