I’m more critical of the films I make than anyone else.
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’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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Excellence is not an act but a habit.
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I have always worried about things more than I should.
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Try to be creatively lead rather than market lead.
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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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In the modern media age, we are rarely surprised by what we see.
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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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Marketing is what gets you noticed, and that side of it something – this side of it, if you like, doing interviews – is the side of it that I least enjoy, and yet is 50% of the project.
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I’m certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.
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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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But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
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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 would never wish to say that I’ve finally waved goodbye to any character, it’s just that the emphasis tends to shift.
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I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the ’50s and ’60s.
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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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