I find his films about as funny as getting an arrow through the neck and discovering there’s a gas bill tied to it.
ROWAN ATKINSONIf 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.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Excellence at everything you can do can be achieved on if it is a habit.
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I mean I can do it when I’m very relaxed, and with good friends, then I think I can be amusing.
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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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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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I don’t think you should be too absolutist about what you play and what you don’t play.
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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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Try to be creatively lead rather than market lead.
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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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You’re about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
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It’s a bit disconcerting being treated like Madonna.
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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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