I think you’re bound to get a sense of any character that you play. It’s not something you often do in comedy.
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 a collector. I don’t like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate.
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feel as though the camera is almost a kind of voyeur in Mr. Bean’s life, and you just watch this bizarre man going about his life in the way that he wants to.
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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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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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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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Don’t get too much emotionally attached to anyone.
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I have always regarded Mr. Bean as a timeless, ageless character, and I would rather he be remembered as a character mostly in his 30s and 40s.
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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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I would return to the Blackadder character if the opportunity came up. I have no qualms about that at all.
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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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I consider myself more of a visual comedian than a physical one.
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I have to say that I’ve always believed perfectionism is more of a disease than a quality. I do try to go with the flow but I can’t let go.
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But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
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If you want to be strong learn to live alone.
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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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