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.
ROWAN ATKINSONIf 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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I’m not a collector. I don’t like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate.
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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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But I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism.
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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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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 don’t think you should be too absolutist about what you play and what you don’t play.
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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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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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Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and nonverbal expression.
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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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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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Birthday meant to be another year to be Fabulous.
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Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.
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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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I think in many ways Johnny English is a more believable character.
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