I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience.
ROWAN ATKINSONI 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 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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feel as though the camera is almost a kind of voyeur in Mr. Bean’s life, and you just watch this bizarre man going about his life in the way that he wants to.
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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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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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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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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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Don’t get too much emotionally attached to anyone.
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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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Birthday meant to be another year to be Fabulous.
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Excellence at everything you can do can be achieved on if it is a habit.
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I consider myself more of a visual comedian than a physical one.
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The job is interesting, and the task is difficult, but the man is just a decent man doing a very ordinary job.
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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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But I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism.
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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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If you want to be strong learn to live alone.
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Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.
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I’m not looking for anything other than an interesting role to play.
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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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Sometimes I don’t feel like going to work but then I remember I was born cute not rich.
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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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Excellence is not an act but a habit.
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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 mean I can do it when I’m very relaxed, and with good friends, then I think I can be amusing.
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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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In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don’t really need to explain very much at all.
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