I’m certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.
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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I’m not looking for anything other than an interesting role to play.
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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 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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Excellence is not an act but a habit.
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I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.
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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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I enjoy it when it’s over! I enjoy whatever success we have. If an audience finds it funny, then it’s been worth it.
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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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I have a problem with Porsches. They’re wonderful cars, but I know I could never live with one.
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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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You’re about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
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Birthday meant to be another year to be Fabulous.
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But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
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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 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’m more critical of the films I make than anyone else.
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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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The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance has helped to determine your path through life.
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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 not a collector. I don’t like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate.
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I have always worried about things more than I should.
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I would never be a television presenter. It’s not something I could ever do.
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I’m not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts.
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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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Sometimes I don’t feel like going to work but then I remember I was born cute not rich.
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