The one thing I would never wish it to be thought is that you play serious roles in order to achieve some sort of respectability which you can’t if you’re playing comedic roles.
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Marketing is what gets you noticed.
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The one thing I would never wish it to be thought is that you play serious roles in order to achieve some sort of respectability which you can’t if you’re playing comedic roles.
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I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the ’50s and ’60s.
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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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But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
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People think because I can make them laugh on the stage, I’ll be able to make them laugh in person. That isn’t the case at all. I am essentially a rather quiet, dull person who just happens to be a performer.
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I can be reasonably funny and light-hearted when I’m in the company of good friends, but I’m not a jokesmith. I tend to be quite serious.
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The job is interesting, and the task is difficult, but the man is just a decent man doing a very ordinary job.
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I’m not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts.
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But I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism.
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I’m not a naturally funny man. I find that I can only be funny, if I become someone else.
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I would return to the Blackadder character if the opportunity came up. I have no qualms about that at all.
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The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely stating an alternative point of view to the orthodoxy, can be interpreted as insult.
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I have always regarded Mr. Bean as a timeless, ageless character, and I would rather he be remembered as a character mostly in his 30s and 40s.
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In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don’t really need to explain very much at all.
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