I’m more critical of the films I make than anyone else.
ROWAN ATKINSONWe 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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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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I think you’re bound to get a sense of any character that you play. It’s not something you often do in comedy.
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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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Look, if I’d wanted a lecture on the rights of man, I’d have gone to bed with Martin Luther.
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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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But I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism.
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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 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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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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You’re about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
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The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil’s own satanic herd!
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Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot before I can be even remotely amusing.
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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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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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Excellence at everything you can do can be achieved on if it is a habit.
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