But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
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More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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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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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’m more critical of the films I make than anyone else.
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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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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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I think in many ways Johnny English is a more believable character.
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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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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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You’re about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
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In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don’t really need to explain very much at all.
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I tend to play rather odd men. People that are slightly odd or eccentric, or have a more particular attitude to life.
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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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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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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 want to be strong learn to live alone.
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I’m not looking for anything other than an interesting role to play.
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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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Mr. Bean’: Childish, anarchic behaviour will always be funny.
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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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I’m certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.
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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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I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the ’50s and ’60s.
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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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It’s not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.
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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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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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