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 ATKINSONI think you’re bound to get a sense of any character that you play. It’s not something you often do in comedy.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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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 more critical of the films I make than anyone else.
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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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If you’re a serious actor, it’s when you know you’re going to die tomorrow that you really start to feel it.
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You’re about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
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In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don’t really need to explain very much at all.
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We must be allowed to insult each other.
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I don’t think you should be too absolutist about what you play and what you don’t play.
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Don’t get too much emotionally attached to anyone.
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Try to be creatively lead rather than market lead.
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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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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’m not a naturally funny man. I find that I can only be funny, if I become someone else.
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Mr. Bean’: Childish, anarchic behaviour will always be funny.
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Enjoy your own company instead of expecting someone else make you happy.
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