In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don’t really need to explain very much at all.
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.
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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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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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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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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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