I’m not a collector. I don’t like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate.
ROWAN ATKINSONIt’s a bit disconcerting being treated like Madonna.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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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’m not a naturally funny man. I find that I can only be funny, if I become someone else.
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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 think in many ways Johnny English is a more believable character.
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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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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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In 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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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 particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts.
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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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Mr. Bean’: Childish, anarchic behaviour will always be funny.
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Try to be creatively lead rather than market lead.
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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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Mr. Bean had a very good chance of being successful and long-running.
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