I’m not a naturally funny man. I find that I can only be funny, if I become someone else.
ROWAN ATKINSONI find his films about as funny as getting an arrow through the neck and discovering there’s a gas bill tied to it.
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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Nope, I don’t enjoy work generally. Not because I’m lazy; it’s just all so stressful and worrying.
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I’m not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts.
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But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
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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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Lord, thy one-liners are as good as thy tricks. Thou art indeed an all-round family entertainer.
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Mr. Bean is essentially a child trapped in the body of a man. All cultures identify with children in a similar way, so he has this bizarre global outreach.
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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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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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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’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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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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In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don’t really need to explain very much at all.
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I would never be a television presenter. It’s not something I could ever do.
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Excellence is not an act but a habit.
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