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I find his films about as funny as getting an arrow through the neck and discovering there’s a gas bill tied to it.

Rowan Atkinson

In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don’t really need to explain very much at all.
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Commercial eed Explanation Television
I find his films about as funny as getting an arrow through the neck and discovering there’s a gas bill tied to it.
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Discover Film Finding Funny Gas Neck Sarcastic
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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Enjoyment Interview Market Notice Project
The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance has helped to determine your path through life.
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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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Sometimes I don’t feel like going to work but then I remember I was born cute not rich.
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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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Don’t get too much emotionally attached to anyone.
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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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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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In the modern media age, we are rarely surprised by what we see.
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I would never be a television presenter. It’s not something I could ever do.
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I’m certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.
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I tend to play rather odd men. People that are slightly odd or eccentric, or have a more particular attitude to life.
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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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Excellence at everything you can do can be achieved on if it is a habit.
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Mr. Bean’: Childish, anarchic behaviour will always be funny.
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To be successful you don’t need beautiful face and heroic body, what you need is skillful mind and ability to perform.
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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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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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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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I don’t think you should be too absolutist about what you play and what you don’t play.
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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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I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience.
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Audience Confidence Finding Funny Minimalism Pretty Simplicity Taste
I’m not looking for anything other than an interesting role to play.
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Funny 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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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 find his films about as funny as getting an arrow through the neck and discovering there’s a gas bill tied to it.

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