I’m more critical of the films I make than anyone else.
ROWAN ATKINSONNope, I don’t enjoy work generally. Not because I’m lazy; it’s just all so stressful and worrying.
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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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To be successful you don’t need beautiful face and heroic body, what you need is skillful mind and ability to perform.
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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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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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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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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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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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But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
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I think in many ways Johnny English is a more believable character.
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I’m certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.
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I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.
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Don’t get too much emotionally attached to anyone.
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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 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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