I think in many ways Johnny English is a more believable character.
ROWAN ATKINSONPeople think because I can make them laugh on the stage, I’ll be able to make them laugh in person. That isn’t the case at all. I am essentially a rather quiet, dull person who just happens to be a performer.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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Don’t get too much emotionally attached to anyone.
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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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Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.
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The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance has helped to determine your path through life.
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People think because I can make them laugh on the stage, I’ll be able to make them laugh in person. That isn’t the case at all. I am essentially a rather quiet, dull person who just happens to be a performer.
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Mr. Bean’: Childish, anarchic behaviour will always be funny.
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I have always regarded Mr. Bean as a timeless, ageless character, and I would rather he be remembered as a character mostly in his 30s and 40s.
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If you get the quality right, then the marketability or whatever; your ability to sell videos or your ability to earn money or whatever, will follow naturally.
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I’m more critical of the films I make than anyone else.
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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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But I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism.
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I’m certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.
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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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I can be reasonably funny and light-hearted when I’m in the company of good friends, but I’m not a jokesmith. I tend to be quite serious.
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The job is interesting, and the task is difficult, but the man is just a decent man doing a very ordinary job.
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