I’m not a naturally funny man. I find that I can only be funny, if I become someone else.
ROWAN ATKINSONI’m not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts.
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Don’t get too much emotionally attached to anyone.
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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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People think because I can make them laugh on the stage, I’ll be able to make them laugh in person. That isn’t the case at all. I am essentially a rather quiet, dull person who just happens to be a performer.
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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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It’s not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.
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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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I have a problem with Porsches. They’re wonderful cars, but I know I could never live with one.
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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 consider myself more of a visual comedian than a physical one.
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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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I am not really single, I am dating my self , I take my self out to eat, I buy myself clothes, I love me, I’m awesome.
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I have always worried about things more than I should.
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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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We put a lot more value, or at least I personally put a lot more value, on the creative values and creative challenges of something than the commercial necessities.
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