Sometimes I don’t feel like going to work but then I remember I was born cute not rich.
ROWAN ATKINSONIf 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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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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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’m not looking for anything other than an interesting role to play.
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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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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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You’re about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
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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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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 would return to the Blackadder character if the opportunity came up. I have no qualms about that at all.
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But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
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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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Mr. Bean is essentially a child trapped in the body of a man. All cultures identify with children in a similar way, so he has this bizarre global outreach.
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To be successful you don’t need beautiful face and heroic body, what you need is skillful mind and ability to perform.
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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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It’s not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.
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