It’s a bit disconcerting being treated like Madonna.
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.
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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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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 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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What is wrong with inciting intense dislike of a religion if the activities or teachings of that religion are so outrageous, irrational or abusive of human rights that they deserve to be intensely disliked?
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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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Marketing is what gets you noticed.
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I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the ’50s and ’60s.
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Try to be creatively lead rather than market lead.
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It’s not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.
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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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I think in many ways Johnny English is a more believable character.
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I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.
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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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I’m not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts.
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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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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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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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Look, if I’d wanted a lecture on the rights of man, I’d have gone to bed with Martin Luther.
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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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Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.
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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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In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don’t really need to explain very much at all.
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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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I consider myself more of a visual comedian than a physical one.
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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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feel as though the camera is almost a kind of voyeur in Mr. Bean’s life, and you just watch this bizarre man going about his life in the way that he wants to.
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