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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

I don’t think you should be too absolutist about what you play and what you don’t play.
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Absolute Play Thinking
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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Art Comedy Community Importance Money Value
I would never be a television presenter. It’s not something I could ever do.
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Actor Television
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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Attempt Criticism Ideas Indeed Law Religious Ridiculous
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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Discover Film Finding Funny Gas Neck Sarcastic
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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Company Friendship Funny Heart Joke Quite Reason Serious
Nope, I don’t enjoy work generally. Not because I’m lazy; it’s just all so stressful and worrying.
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Enjoyment Lazy Stress Work Worry
We must be allowed to insult each other.
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Allow Funny Insult Sarcastic
The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance has helped to determine your path through life.
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Birthday Determination Happen Help Life Old Path Realise
Sometimes I don’t feel like going to work but then I remember I was born cute not rich.
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Born Cute Funny Remember Rich Sarcastic Work
Birthday meant to be another year to be Fabulous.
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Birthday Fabulous
I would return to the Blackadder character if the opportunity came up. I have no qualms about that at all.
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Acting Character Opportunity
But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
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Introspective Quiet Tend
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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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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Believe Disease Flow Let Go Perfection Quality Try
I have a problem with Porsches. They’re wonderful cars, but I know I could never live with one.
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Car Problem Wonderful
I’m not a naturally funny man. I find that I can only be funny, if I become someone else.
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Be Yourself Deep Finding Funny Man Natural
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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Car Cause Evaporation Toy
I mean I can do it when I’m very relaxed, and with good friends, then I think I can be amusing.
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Amuse Friendship Relax Thinking
But I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism.
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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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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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Ability Earn Market Money Natural Quality Right Sell
Marketing is what gets you noticed.
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Market Notice One Liner
Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.
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Barber Funny Humour Sarcastic Service
I’m not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts.
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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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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

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