I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the ’50s and ’60s.
ROWAN ATKINSONI 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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The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil’s own satanic herd!
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In the modern media age, we are rarely surprised by what we see.
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I would never be a television presenter. It’s not something I could ever do.
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I’m certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.
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I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.
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We must be allowed to insult each other.
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Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and nonverbal expression.
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You’re about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
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Try to be creatively lead rather than market lead.
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It’s a bit disconcerting being treated like Madonna.
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Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a little sad. You’ve got to be careful.
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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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Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.
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It’s not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.
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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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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 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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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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Nope, I don’t enjoy work generally. Not because I’m lazy; it’s just all so stressful and worrying.
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Excellence is not an act but a habit.
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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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The right to ridicule is far more important to society than any right not to be ridiculed because one in my view represents openness – and the other represents oppression.
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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 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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I consider myself more of a visual comedian than a physical one.
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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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