I would never be a television presenter. It’s not something I could ever do.
ROWAN ATKINSONI want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.
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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 more critical of the films I make than anyone else.
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I suddenly think the job of acting is a difficult one. It’s not as flip, irrelevant, and shallow a calling as I thought it was in the Eighties.
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I would return to the Blackadder character if the opportunity came up. I have no qualms about that at all.
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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 think in many ways Johnny English is a more believable character.
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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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Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and nonverbal expression.
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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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But I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism.
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I have a problem with Porsches. They’re wonderful cars, but I know I could never live with one.
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If you want to be strong learn to live alone.
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I enjoy it when it’s over! I enjoy whatever success we have. If an audience finds it funny, then it’s been worth it.
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Try to be creatively lead rather than market lead.
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It’s not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.
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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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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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Birthday meant to be another year to be Fabulous.
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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’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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But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
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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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I have always worried about things more than I should.
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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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I like to juggle with one ball at a time. Then I put the ball down and do nothing for extended periods of time.
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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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