Sacha Baron Cohen Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

Sacha Baron Cohen:(after receiving the Golden Globe for Best Performance in a Musical or Comedy for his portrayal of Borat, to his co-star Ken Davitan while referencing the infamous naked fight scene) Kenneth, if it wasn't for that rancid bubble, I wouldn't be here today.

Borat Sagdiyev: (talking about the Red Light District in Amsterdam) It was very confusing because in Kazachstan the red light district is a very small area where the women inside are NOT prostitutes.

Borat: I like very much Australia. I am a huge fanny of your country.

Borat Sagdiyev: It is very strange that a woman can vote, but a horse can not.

Ali G: Booyakasha!

Ali G: Is it because I is black?

Trivia

In January 2007, Borat was ranked #19 in GQ magazine’s annual top 100 of most powerful men in Britain.

Sacha Baron Cohen is set to make his debut as a rapper in a new musical - because his singing voice is so terrible. Sacha is set to appear alongside Johnny Depp in Tim Burton's remake of the musical Sweeney Todd. But Cohen's voice is so bad he's been told to rap his operatic numbers instead.

In 2002 a movie about Baron Cohen's alter ego Ali G came out. In Ali G Indahouse Ali G is trying to prevent his neighborhood from being demolished.

Sacha Baron Cohen's cousin is Simon Baron-Cohen, Professor of Developmental Psychopathology at the University of Cambridge.

To get guests to appear on his show Cohen often fools them by sending letters with HBO's letterhead and type.

Baron Cohen studied history at Christ's College, Cambridge. Before that he attended Haberdashers' Aske's School, a public school in Elstree.

His father owns a menswear shop in Piccadilly and is originally from Wales.

Baron Cohen was an active member in the Jewish youth movement Habonim Dror.

In spite of what you might think Baron is the first part of his compound surname and not a title of nobility.

Is 6' 3" (1.91 m) tall.

He considered pursuing a PhD before going into comedy.

Sacha Baron Cohen is not to be confused with nor is he related to the US Olympic women's figure skater Sasha Cohen.

The hair and mustache Cohen uses in his portrayal of Borat are real. It takes him six weeks to grow them both.

He won a "TV Quick" award for personality of the Year 2000 for Ali G.