I’m certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.
ROWAN ATKINSONI don’t think you should be too absolutist about what you play and what you don’t play.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.
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Excellence is not an act but a habit.
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We must be allowed to insult each other.
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The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil’s own satanic herd!
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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 would return to the Blackadder character if the opportunity came up. I have no qualms about that at all.
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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 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’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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In the modern media age, we are rarely surprised by what we see.
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When I was doing Bean more than I’ve done him in the last few years, I did strange things – like appearing on chat shows in character as Mr. Bean.
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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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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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Don’t get too much emotionally attached to anyone.
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But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
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