If you’re a serious actor, it’s when you know you’re going to die tomorrow that you really start to feel it.
ROWAN ATKINSONIn the modern media age, we are rarely surprised by what we see.
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I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the ’50s and ’60s.
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I don’t think you should be too absolutist about what you play and what you don’t play.
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I’m not looking for anything other than an interesting role to play.
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It’s not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.
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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 particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts.
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Don’t get too much emotionally attached to anyone.
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I have always worried about things more than I should.
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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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Excellence is not an act but a habit.
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We must be allowed to insult each other.
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Try to be creatively lead rather than market lead.
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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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The right to ridicule is far more important to society than any right not to be ridiculed because one in my view represents openness – and the other represents oppression.
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I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.
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