Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.
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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When I was doing Bean more than I’ve done him in the last few years, I did strange things – like appearing on chat shows in character as Mr. Bean.
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Don’t get too much emotionally attached to anyone.
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I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.
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Excellence at everything you can do can be achieved on if it is a habit.
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I think you’re bound to get a sense of any character that you play. It’s not something you often do in comedy.
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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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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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Art is something that nobody laughs at and nobody makes any money out of is the attitude, which I would dispute.
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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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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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People think because I can make them laugh on the stage, I’ll be able to make them laugh in person. That isn’t the case at all. I am essentially a rather quiet, dull person who just happens to be a performer.
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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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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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