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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.

Rowan Atkinson

Try to be creatively lead rather than market lead.
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Business Creative Market Try
Birthday meant to be another year to be Fabulous.
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Birthday Fabulous
In the modern media age, we are rarely surprised by what we see.
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Age Media Modernization Rare Surprise
I don’t think you should be too absolutist about what you play and what you don’t play.
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Absolute Play Thinking
You’re about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
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Contest Humour Man Sarcastic
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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Achievement Comedy Play Respect Role Serious
Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and nonverbal expression.
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Expression Home Silence
It’s a bit disconcerting being treated like Madonna.
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Cause Treatment
I have to say that I’ve always believed perfectionism is more of a disease than a quality. I do try to go with the flow but I can’t let go.
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Believe Disease Flow Let Go Perfection Quality Try
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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Character Comedy Play Sense Thinking
Nope, I don’t enjoy work generally. Not because I’m lazy; it’s just all so stressful and worrying.
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Enjoyment Lazy Stress Work Worry
Mr. Bean had a very good chance of being successful and long-running.
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Chance Success
The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely stating an alternative point of view to the orthodoxy, can be interpreted as insult.
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Alternative Criticism Insult Problem Sarcastic
I’m more critical of the films I make than anyone else.
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Criticism Film
I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the ’50s and ’60s.
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Car Enjoyment History Hobby Race
I’m as poor as a church mouse, that’s just had an enormous tax bill on the very day his wife ran off with another mouse, taking all the cheese.
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Bill Cheese Enormous Mouse Poor Tax Wife

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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