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.
ROWAN ATKINSONMr. 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 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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I mean I can do it when I’m very relaxed, and with good friends, then I think I can be amusing.
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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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In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don’t really need to explain very much at all.
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Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.
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If you’re a serious actor, it’s when you know you’re going to die tomorrow that you really start to feel it.
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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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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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Lord, thy one-liners are as good as thy tricks. Thou art indeed an all-round family entertainer.
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If you want to be strong learn to live alone.
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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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I’m not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts.
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I consider myself more of a visual comedian than a physical one.
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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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