I’m certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.
ROWAN ATKINSONI 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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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 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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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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The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance has helped to determine your path through life.
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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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I’m not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts.
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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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I think in many ways Johnny English is a more believable character.
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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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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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Try to be creatively lead rather than market lead.
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I’m not looking for anything other than an interesting role to play.
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Birthday meant to be another year to be Fabulous.
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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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If you want to be strong learn to live alone.
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Art is something that nobody laughs at and nobody makes any money out of is the attitude, which I would dispute.
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If you’re a serious actor, it’s when you know you’re going to die tomorrow that you really start to feel it.
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Enjoy your own company instead of expecting someone else make you happy.
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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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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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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 must be allowed to insult each other.
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In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don’t really need to explain very much at all.
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You’re about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
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I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.
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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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