I think that essentially I'm a private person, and to reconcile that with being famous is a hard thing, so I've been trying to have my cake and eat it, too -— to have my characters be famous yet still live a normal life where I'm not trapped by fame and recognizability.
Источник: Strauss, Neil. "The Man Behind The Mustache" http://web.archive.org/web/20070102223451/http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/sacha_baron_cohen_the_real_borat_finally_speaks. // Rolling Stone. — 2 January 2007.
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„Спасибо каждому американцу, который до сих пор не подал на меня в суд.“
Thank you to every American who has not sued me so far.
на церемонии вручения премии «Золотой глобус» 2007 года
Источник: Time Magazine 16 Jan 2007 http://www.time.com/time/quotes/0,26174,1578193,00.html
... I think that's quite an interesting thing <interview> with Borat, which is people really let down their guard with him because they're in a room with somebody who seems to have these outrageous opinions. They sometimes feel much more relaxed about letting their own outrageous, politically incorrect, prejudiced opinions come out.
О Борате Сагдиеве
Источник: Siegel, Robert. " Ali G: Fooling Serious Interviewees, All for a Laugh http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3613548" (NPR, 23 July 2004)
It's exhausting, because there's a greater pressure to be funny if you turn up somewhere as your comic character.
по поводу выхода из роли Бората после съёмок фильма
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. And just looking around, you know, over the last 10 years in particular, I kind of became obsessed [with] Colonel Gadhafi, amongst others, but Gadhafi in particular because he was so over the top. His dress style was so flamboyant, so ridiculous. In fact it could only really get to that level of absurdity by the fact that he was somebody who was unquestioned.
О диктаторах
Источник: Sacha Baron Cohen: The Fresh Air Interview http://www.npr.org/2012/05/21/153204627/sacha-baron-cohen-the-fresh-air-interview (NPR, 21 May 2012)
I had always found Colonel Qaddafi hilarious. I wanted to do a character that was inspired by him. And you had all these other ludicrous characters, like Turkmenbashi, who was the President and dictator of Turkmenistan, who renamed, I think, the day Thursday and the word for “bread” after his mother. And when his doctor told him to give up smoking, he banned smoking from the whole country, because he didn’t want to be reminded of cigarettes. And then you have someone like Kim Jong-il, you know, who claimed to have hit nine holes-in-one in his first-ever game of golf, and also Colonel Qaddafi, who had these sort of thirty virgin guards, dressed unintentionally like a sixty-year-old women, and who would break wind when being interviewed by the BBC, as you know.
О диктаторах
Источник: Starring Sacha Baron Cohen as Himself http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/lauren-collins/2012/05/sacha-baron-cohen-interview.html (Newyorker, 18 May 2012)
Саша Барон Коэн: Цитаты на английском языке
“Is it named after Michael Jordan?”
As quoted in "War" http://www.listenonrepeat.com/watch/?v=qyA-A3mYV6A (28 February 2003), Da Ali G Show
Me went to New York to meet these player-haters.
As quoted in "War" http://www.listenonrepeat.com/watch/?v=aV3ncKB8a4s (28 February 2003), Da Ali G Show http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0508528/?ref_=ttep_ep2.
As quoted in "War" http://www.listenonrepeat.com/watch/?v=aV3ncKB8a4s (28 February 2003), Da Ali G Show http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0508528/?ref_=ttep_ep2.
“In Kazakhstan the favorite hobbies are disco dancing, archery, rape, and table tennis.”
Borat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2l0nu6m2cw.
“Which is the funniest language? It's French, isn't it?”
As quoted in "War" http://www.listenonrepeat.com/watch/?v=C5P9J1wCgNM (28 February 2003), Da Ali G Show http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0508528/?ref_=ttep_ep2.
“With all respect, why do you give crap countries a vote?”
As quoted in "War" http://www.listenonrepeat.com/watch/?v=qyA-A3mYV6A (28 February 2003), Da Ali G Show
“Does this country really exist?”
As quoted in "War" http://www.listenonrepeat.com/watch/?v=qyA-A3mYV6A (28 February 2003), Da Ali G Show
Describing the reaction of a 60,000 crowd of American Football fans and his bodyguard, while appearing as Bruno (the flamboyantly homosexual fashion journalist) at an NFL match http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2092-2557633.html
“Thank you to every American who has not sued me so far.”
At the Golden Globe awards, after receiving the best actor award for comedy for his performance in Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. Time Magazine 16 Jan 2007 http://www.time.com/time/quotes/0,26174,1578193,00.html
As quoted in "War" http://www.listenonrepeat.com/watch/?v=C5P9J1wCgNM (28 February 2003), Da Ali G Show http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0508528/?ref_=ttep_ep2.
On his travels to the United States. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,11069-2549442_2,00.html
