Try to be creatively lead rather than market lead.
ROWAN ATKINSONThe arts community still has a long lasting cynicism of the importance, or the artistic value, of comedy. Comedy is just farting about for money.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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I would never wish to say that I’ve finally waved goodbye to any character, it’s just that the emphasis tends to shift.
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Excellence is not an act but a habit.
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If you get the quality right, then the marketability or whatever; your ability to sell videos or your ability to earn money or whatever, will follow naturally.
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I’m certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.
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Mr. Bean’: Childish, anarchic behaviour will always be funny.
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For telling a good and incisive religious joke, you should be praised. For telling a bad one, you should be ridiculed and reviled. The idea that you could be prosecuted for the telling of either is quite fantastic.
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Lord, thy one-liners are as good as thy tricks. Thou art indeed an all-round family entertainer.
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Marketing is what gets you noticed, and that side of it something – this side of it, if you like, doing interviews – is the side of it that I least enjoy, and yet is 50% of the project.
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I suddenly think the job of acting is a difficult one. It’s not as flip, irrelevant, and shallow a calling as I thought it was in the Eighties.
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I mean I can do it when I’m very relaxed, and with good friends, then I think I can be amusing.
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I have a problem with Porsches. They’re wonderful cars, but I know I could never live with one.
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I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience.
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If you get the quality right, then the marketability or whatever; your ability to sell videos or your ability to earn money or whatever, will follow naturally.
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Art is something that nobody laughs at and nobody makes any money out of is the attitude, which I would dispute.
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The arts community still has a long lasting cynicism of the importance, or the artistic value, of comedy. Comedy is just farting about for money.
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