I’m not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts.
ROWAN ATKINSONWe 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.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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It’s not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.
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Try to be creatively lead rather than market lead.
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I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the ’50s and ’60s.
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You’re about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
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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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I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.
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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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Lord, thy one-liners are as good as thy tricks. Thou art indeed an all-round family entertainer.
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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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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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Enjoy your own company instead of expecting someone else make you happy.
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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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I think in many ways Johnny English is a more believable character.
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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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