I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the ’50s and ’60s.
ROWAN ATKINSONMarketing 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.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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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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The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance has helped to determine your path through life.
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It’s not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.
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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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Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.
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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 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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I’m not a naturally funny man. I find that I can only be funny, if I become someone else.
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Don’t get too much emotionally attached to anyone.
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Excellence is not an act but a habit.
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Mr. Bean is essentially a child trapped in the body of a man. All cultures identify with children in a similar way, so he has this bizarre global outreach.
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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 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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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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