It’s not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.
ROWAN ATKINSONI enjoy racing historic motorcars from the ’50s and ’60s.
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I can be reasonably funny and light-hearted when I’m in the company of good friends, but I’m not a jokesmith. I tend to be quite serious.
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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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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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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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Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a little sad. You’ve got to be careful.
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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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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 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’m not a naturally funny man. I find that I can only be funny, if I become someone else.
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I’m not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts.
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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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I’m more critical of the films I make than anyone else.
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Don’t get too much emotionally attached to anyone.
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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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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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