The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance has helped to determine your path through life.
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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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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Don’t get too much emotionally attached to anyone.
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Lord, thy one-liners are as good as thy tricks. Thou art indeed an all-round family entertainer.
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Mr. Bean’: Childish, anarchic behaviour will always be funny.
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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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I’m not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts.
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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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But I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism.
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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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In the modern media age, we are rarely surprised by what we see.
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It’s not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.
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I’m certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.
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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 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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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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