I don’t think you should be too absolutist about what you play and what you don’t play.
ROWAN ATKINSONI 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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It’s not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.
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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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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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Sometimes I don’t feel like going to work but then I remember I was born cute not rich.
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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’m not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts.
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But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
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I’m certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.
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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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We must be allowed to insult each other.
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Excellence at everything you can do can be achieved on if it is a habit.
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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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I would never be a television presenter. It’s not something I could ever do.
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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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When I was doing Bean more than I’ve done him in the last few years, I did strange things – like appearing on chat shows in character as Mr. Bean.
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