I suddenly think the job of acting is a difficult one. It’s not as flip, irrelevant, and shallow a calling as I thought it was in the Eighties.
ROWAN ATKINSONTo be successful you don’t need beautiful face and heroic body, what you need is skillful mind and ability to perform.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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Mr. Bean had a very good chance of being successful and long-running.
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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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I think in many ways Johnny English is a more believable character.
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Don’t get too much emotionally attached to anyone.
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A law which attempts to say you can criticize and ridicule ideas as long as they are not religious ideas is a very peculiar law indeed.
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Look, if I’d wanted a lecture on the rights of man, I’d have gone to bed with Martin Luther.
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I like to juggle with one ball at a time. Then I put the ball down and do nothing for extended periods of time.
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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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I would never wish to say that I’ve finally waved goodbye to any character, it’s just that the emphasis tends to shift.
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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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The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil’s own satanic herd!
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We must be allowed to insult each other.
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I find his films about as funny as getting an arrow through the neck and discovering there’s a gas bill tied to it.
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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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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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