The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance has helped to determine your path through life.
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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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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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If you want to be strong learn to live alone.
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Mr. Bean had a very good chance of being successful and long-running.
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If you’re a serious actor, it’s when you know you’re going to die tomorrow that you really start to feel it.
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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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My personal problem is that I take the business of film-making so seriously that I find it very difficult to relax.
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I would never be a television presenter. It’s not something I could ever do.
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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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But I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism.
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It’s not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.
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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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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’m not a collector. I don’t like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate.
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A law which attempts to say you can criticize and ridicule ideas as long as they are not religious ideas is a very peculiar law indeed.
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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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But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
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In the modern media age, we are rarely surprised by what we see.
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I’m not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts.
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Marketing is what gets you noticed.
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I think you’re bound to get a sense of any character that you play. It’s not something you often do in comedy.
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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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Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.
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I tend to play rather odd men. People that are slightly odd or eccentric, or have a more particular attitude to life.
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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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Try to be creatively lead rather than market lead.
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