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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.

Rowan Atkinson

I think you’re bound to get a sense of any character that you play. It’s not something you often do in comedy.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Character Comedy Play Sense Thinking
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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Actor Die Feeling Future Serious Start
Marketing is what gets you noticed.
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Market Notice One Liner
Look, if I’d wanted a lecture on the rights of man, I’d have gone to bed with Martin Luther.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Funny Lecture Man Right Sarcastic Want
feel as though the camera is almost a kind of voyeur in Mr. Bean’s life, and you just watch this bizarre man going about his life in the way that he wants to.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Camera Man Want
I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Different Express Inclination Myself Performance Want
The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance has helped to determine your path through life.
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Birthday Determination Happen Help Life Old Path Realise
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.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Ability Earn Market Money Natural Quality Right Sell
Try to be creatively lead rather than market lead.
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Business Creative Market Try
I tend to play rather odd men. People that are slightly odd or eccentric, or have a more particular attitude to life.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Actor Attitude Particular People Play
I’m not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Clever Creative Focus Instinct Particular
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.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Company Friendship Funny Heart Joke Quite Reason Serious
Art is something that nobody laughs at and nobody makes any money out of is the attitude, which I would dispute.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Art Attitude Dispute Laugh Money
I would never wish to say that I’ve finally waved goodbye to any character, it’s just that the emphasis tends to shift.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Character Emphasis Goodbye Shift Wave
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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Appearance Character Chat Done Show Strange
Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Barber Funny Humour Sarcastic Service

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