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ROWAN ATKINSONI would never be a television presenter. It’s not something I could ever do.
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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.
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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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But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
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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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I’m not a naturally funny man. I find that I can only be funny, if I become someone else.
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Birthday meant to be another year to be Fabulous.
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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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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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Mr. Bean had a very good chance of being successful and long-running.
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If you want to be strong learn to live alone.
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I would never be a television presenter. It’s not something I could ever do.
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In the modern media age, we are rarely surprised by what we see.
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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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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 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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I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience.
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Sometimes I don’t feel like going to work but then I remember I was born cute not rich.
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It’s a bit disconcerting being treated like Madonna.
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I’m not a collector. I don’t like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate.
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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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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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It’s not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.
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Lord, thy one-liners are as good as thy tricks. Thou art indeed an all-round family entertainer.
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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 have a problem with Porsches. They’re wonderful cars, but I know I could never live with one.
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