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.
ROWAN ATKINSONFor telling a good and incisive religious joke, you should be praised. For telling a bad one, you should be ridiculed and reviled. The idea that you could be prosecuted for the telling of either is quite fantastic.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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In the modern media age, we are rarely surprised by what we see.
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I’m certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.
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Enjoy your own company instead of expecting someone else make you happy.
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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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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 don’t think you should be too absolutist about what you play and what you don’t play.
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I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.
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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 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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For telling a good and incisive religious joke, you should be praised. For telling a bad one, you should be ridiculed and reviled. The idea that you could be prosecuted for the telling of either is quite fantastic.
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