Try to be creatively lead rather than market lead.
ROWAN ATKINSONIt’s not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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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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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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What is wrong with inciting intense dislike of a religion if the activities or teachings of that religion are so outrageous, irrational or abusive of human rights that they deserve to be intensely disliked?
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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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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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I find his films about as funny as getting an arrow through the neck and discovering there’s a gas bill tied to it.
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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 have to say that I’ve always believed perfectionism is more of a disease than a quality. I do try to go with the flow but I can’t let go.
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I like to juggle with one ball at a time. Then I put the ball down and do nothing for extended periods of time.
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I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.
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Birthday meant to be another year to be Fabulous.
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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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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 not a naturally funny man. I find that I can only be funny, if I become someone else.
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Excellence is not an act but a habit.
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