The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance has helped to determine your path through life.
ROWAN ATKINSONThe arts community still has a long lasting cynicism of the importance, or the artistic value, of comedy. Comedy is just farting about for money.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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I enjoy it when it’s over! I enjoy whatever success we have. If an audience finds it funny, then it’s been worth it.
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I think in many ways Johnny English is a more believable character.
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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.
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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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Art is something that nobody laughs at and nobody makes any money out of is the attitude, which I would dispute.
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It’s a bit disconcerting being treated like Madonna.
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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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But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
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I’m certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.
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If you want to be strong learn to live alone.
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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’m more critical of the films I make than anyone else.
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I’m not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts.
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I’m not looking for anything other than an interesting role to play.
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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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