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.
ROWAN ATKINSONLord, thy one-liners are as good as thy tricks. Thou art indeed an all-round family entertainer.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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It’s not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.
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The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance has helped to determine your path through life.
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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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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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Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot before I can be even remotely amusing.
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My personal problem is that I take the business of film-making so seriously that I find it very difficult to relax.
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Mr. Bean’: Childish, anarchic behaviour will always be funny.
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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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Try to be creatively lead rather than market lead.
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I think in many ways Johnny English is a more believable character.
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Mr. Bean is essentially a child trapped in the body of a man. All cultures identify with children in a similar way, so he has this bizarre global outreach.
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If you want to be strong learn to live alone.
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Nope, I don’t enjoy work generally. Not because I’m lazy; it’s just all so stressful and worrying.
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Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.
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Birthday meant to be another year to be Fabulous.
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I’m not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts.
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The job is interesting, and the task is difficult, but the man is just a decent man doing a very ordinary job.
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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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But I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism.
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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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I’m certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.
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feel as though the camera is almost a kind of voyeur in Mr. Bean’s life, and you just watch this bizarre man going about his life in the way that he wants to.
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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’m not looking for anything other than an interesting role to play.
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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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