We put a lot more value, or at least I personally put a lot more value, on the creative values and creative challenges of something than the commercial necessities.
ROWAN ATKINSONI’m certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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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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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 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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Don’t get too much emotionally attached to anyone.
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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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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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Marketing is what gets you noticed.
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Try to be creatively lead rather than market lead.
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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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feel as though the camera is almost a kind of voyeur in Mr. Bean’s life, and you just watch this bizarre man going about his life in the way that he wants to.
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But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
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The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance has helped to determine your path through life.
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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 have always worried about things more than I should.
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When I was doing Bean more than I’ve done him in the last few years, I did strange things – like appearing on chat shows in character as Mr. Bean.
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