Sacha Baron Cohen
Sacha Baron Cohen
Sacha Noam Baron Cohenis an English actor, comedian, and screenwriter. A graduate of Christ's College, Cambridge, Baron Cohen is most widely known for creating and portraying four fictional characters: Ali G, Borat Sagdiyev, Brüno Gehard and Admiral General Aladeen. Like his idol Peter Sellers, he uses a variety of accents and guises for his characters...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth13 October 1971
CityLondon, England
numbers years ideas
For a number of years in England nobody had any idea what I looked like.
thinking talking ideas
I remember, when I was in university I studied history, and there was this one major historian of the Third Reich, Ian Kershaw. And his quote was, 'The path to Auschwitz was paved with indifference.' I know it's not very funny being a comedian talking about the Holocaust, but I think it's an interesting idea that not everyone in Germany had to be a raving anti-Semite. They just had to be apathetic.
enjoyed
I enjoyed being anonymous.
comedian tendencies jew
Jews have a tendency to become comedians.
real character careers
Dictators are ludicrous characters, and, you know, in my career and in my life, I've always enjoyed sort of inhabiting these ludicrous, larger-than-life characters that somehow exist in the real world.
done interviews
I've never really done any interviews as myself.
hollywood film
Thank you to every American who has not sued me so far.
thinking skills able
I have been incredibly fortunate to be able to work with good directors and for me it's not really a plan each time I'm on a set with one of them; I think about what I can learn from them because I'm very aware that my filmmaking skills are very modest.
thinking class community
I think in all small towns, all kind of working class communities around the world. They are kind of similar.
character thinking stuff
I think I think in the moment. So when I'm in character, I'm in character, and I'm obviously thinking about what's going on around me, but it's easier to do stuff when you're in character.
dangerous-situations car getaways
Normally in dangerous situations I have a getaway car.
thinking fake documentaries
I think pulling off, pulling off a kind of fake documentary of me being a, you know, actual dictator would have been extremely difficult, if not impossible.
groups prejudice kind
To single out a particular group and say we can't make a joke about them is almost a form of prejudice and it's kind of patronizing.
brave bravery ifs
I don't know if I'm brave.