I’m more critical of the films I make than anyone else.
ROWAN ATKINSONI don’t think you should be too absolutist about what you play and what you don’t play.
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I think in many ways Johnny English is a more believable character.
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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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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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Birthday meant to be another year to be Fabulous.
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I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.
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Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.
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I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience.
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For telling a good and incisive religious joke, you should be praised. For telling a bad one, you should be ridiculed and reviled. The idea that you could be prosecuted for the telling of either is quite fantastic.
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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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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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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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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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I think you’re bound to get a sense of any character that you play. It’s not something you often do in comedy.
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A law which attempts to say you can criticize and ridicule ideas as long as they are not religious ideas is a very peculiar law indeed.
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I’m certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.
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