It’s not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.
ROWAN ATKINSONIt’s a bit disconcerting being treated like Madonna.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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I’m certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.
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Excellence at everything you can do can be achieved on if it is a habit.
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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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Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.
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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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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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Nope, I don’t enjoy work generally. Not because I’m lazy; it’s just all so stressful and worrying.
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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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The arts community still has a long lasting cynicism of the importance, or the artistic value, of comedy. Comedy is just farting about for money.
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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 would return to the Blackadder character if the opportunity came up. I have no qualms about that at all.
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I think in many ways Johnny English is a more believable character.
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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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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 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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