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.
ROWAN ATKINSONFunny 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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I would return to the Blackadder character if the opportunity came up. I have no qualms about that at all.
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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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Excellence is not an act but a habit.
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I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the ’50s and ’60s.
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I’m not looking for anything other than an interesting role to play.
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I’m not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts.
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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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Birthday meant to be another year to be Fabulous.
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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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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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Excellence at everything you can do can be achieved on if it is a habit.
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If you want to be strong learn to live alone.
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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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But I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism.
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When I was doing Bean more than I’ve done him in the last few years, I did strange things – like appearing on chat shows in character as Mr. Bean.
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