Steve Coogan movie quotes

“Some people have a problem to deal with the past.”
Steve Coogan - Martin Sixsmith

“I'm a journalist, Philomena. We ask questions. We don't believe something just because we're told it's the truth.”
Steve Coogan - Martin Sixsmith

What does the Bible say? "Happy are those who do not see, yet believe." Hooray for blind faith and ignorance.
Steve Coogan - Martin Sixsmith

I read a very funny headline in a satirical newspaper the other day about the earthquake in Turkey. It said "God Outdoes Terrorists Yet Again." Why God suddenly feels the need to kill hundreds of thousands of innocent people escapes me.
Steve Coogan - Martin Sixsmith

“The Catholic Church should go to confession, not you!”
Steve Coogan - Martin Sixsmith

“Don't upset yourself. We don't know what we don't know.”
Steve Coogan - Martin Sixsmith

“You don't need religion to lead a happy and balanced life.”
Steve Coogan - Martin Sixsmith

“Philomena Lee-But I don't wanna hate people. I don't wanna be like you. Look at you.
Martin Sixsmith-I'm angry.
Philomena Lee-Must be exhausting.”
Dame Judi Dench - Philomena Lee
Steve Coogan - Martin Sixsmith

"Human interest story" is a euphemism for stories about weak-minded, vulnerable, ignorant people, to fill in newspapers read by vulnerable, weak-minded, ignorant people.
Steve Coogan - Martin Sixsmith

“I don't believe in God, and I think He knows.”
Steve Coogan - Martin Sixsmith

“The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.”
Steve Coogan - Martin Sixsmith

“- Oliver Hardy: I knew.
- Stan Laurel: Well, why didn't you tell me you knew?
- Oliver Hardy: I thought you already knew I knew.
- Stan Laurel: How could I know that you knew I knew?
- Oliver Hardy: What would my line be here?
- Stan Laurel: Uhm, now I know you knew, but I thought you knew I knew, but you were pretending not to know I knew.”
John C. Reilly - Oliver
Steve Coogan - Stan

“- Stan Laurel: You can't have Hardy without Laurel.
- Hal Roach: That's what you think.”
Steve Coogan - Stan
Danny Huston - Hal Roach

“- Stan Laurel: How about I just punch you right on the nose? I haven't done that for a long time.
- Oliver Hardy: Can I poke you in the eye?
- Stan Laurel: You could wring my neck.
- Oliver Hardy: I think I'd rather poke you in the eye.”
Steve Coogan - Stan
John C. Reilly - Oliver

“You know, when you watch our movies, nobody else in the stories knows us, and we don't know anybody either. It was just the two of us. All we had was each other.”

Steve Coogan - Stan

“- Stan Laurel: You'll be fine, Babe. Just lay off the horses, and don't get married again.
- Oliver Hardy: Oh, I didn't tell you. I proposed to Lucille.”
Steve Coogan - Stan
John C. Reilly - Oliver

“- Oliver Hardy: What are all these Romans doing here?
- Stan Laurel: I don't know. Maybe there's a sale at the Forum.”
John C. Reilly - Oliver
Steve Coogan - Stan

“I'm never getting married again. I'm just going to find a woman I don't like and buy her a house.”
Steve Coogan - Stan

“- Oliver Hardy: I'll miss us when we're gone.
- Stan Laurel: So will you.”
John C. Reilly - Oliver
Steve Coogan - Stan

“I have so much anger. I feel like I've been raped. In the face!”
Steve Coogan - Dana Marschz

“Do you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna cut you into string, ball you up and then bat you around for hoouurs in a game that only I understand.”
Steve Coogan - Ozone

“I think the best way to tell the story is by starting at the end, briefly, then going back to the beginning, and then periodically returning to the end, maybe giving different characters' perspectives throughout. Just to give it a bit of dynamism, otherwise it's just sort of a linear story.”
Steve Coogan - David Ershon

“- Valerie Da Vinci: It's some kind of monster!
- Silas Ramsbottom: Wait, that's not a monster! That's a man wearing shoulder pads. There's only one supervillain whose fashion sense is quite that dated...”

Jenny Slate - Valerie Da Vinci
Steve Coogan - Silas Ramsbottom

- Colin: What we don't need is a curly headed wanker trying to be Captain Kirk.
- Simon Garden: At least he got things done. Imagine you looking for Spock in Star Trek 4: "Oh, sorry, we couldn't find him".
- Colin: That was Star Trek 3. It was called "The Search for Spock"!
Ben Miller - Colin
Steve Coogan - Simon Garden

“- Emma: Is that a gun in your pocket?
- Simon Garden: Uh... no, it's my penis.”
Lena Headey - Emma
Steve Coogan - Simon Garden