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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.

Rowan Atkinson

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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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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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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What is wrong with inciting intense dislike of a religion if the activities or teachings of that religion are so outrageous, irrational or abusive of human rights that they deserve to be intensely disliked?
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Marketing is what gets you noticed.
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Don’t get too much emotionally attached to anyone.
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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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I would return to the Blackadder character if the opportunity came up. I have no qualms about that at all.
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I’m certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.
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For telling a good and incisive religious joke, you should be praised. For telling a bad one, you should be ridiculed and reviled. The idea that you could be prosecuted for the telling of either is quite fantastic.
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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 job is interesting, and the task is difficult, but the man is just a decent man doing a very ordinary job.
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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’m not looking for anything other than an interesting role to play.
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I don’t think you should be too absolutist about what you play and what you don’t play.
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Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a little sad. You’ve got to be careful.
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