In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don’t really need to explain very much at all.
ROWAN ATKINSONThe path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil’s own satanic herd!
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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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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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 have always worried about things more than I should.
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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 find his films about as funny as getting an arrow through the neck and discovering there’s a gas bill tied to it.
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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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The one thing I would never wish it to be thought is that you play serious roles in order to achieve some sort of respectability which you can’t if you’re playing comedic roles.
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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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The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely stating an alternative point of view to the orthodoxy, can be interpreted as insult.
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I’m more critical of the films I make than anyone else.
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Mr. Bean’: Childish, anarchic behaviour will always be funny.
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Mr. Bean had a very good chance of being successful and long-running.
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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 enjoy racing historic motorcars from the ’50s and ’60s.
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The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance has helped to determine your path through life.
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