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 ATKINSONYour services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.
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Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a little sad. You’ve got to be careful.
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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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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’m more critical of the films I make than anyone else.
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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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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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I’m certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.
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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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Don’t get too much emotionally attached to anyone.
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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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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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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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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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The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance has helped to determine your path through life.
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Try to be creatively lead rather than market lead.
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