Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot before I can be even remotely amusing.
ROWAN ATKINSON
It’s not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.
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Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot before I can be even remotely amusing.
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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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But I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism.
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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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Look, if I’d wanted a lecture on the rights of man, I’d have gone to bed with Martin Luther.
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I’m certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.
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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 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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I have a problem with Porsches. They’re wonderful cars, but I know I could never live with one.
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Excellence is not an act but a habit.
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We must be allowed to insult each other.
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But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
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Marketing is what gets you noticed.
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I’m not looking for anything other than an interesting role to play.
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Mr. Bean’: Childish, anarchic behaviour will always be funny.
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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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