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 ATKINSONDon’t get too much emotionally attached to anyone.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.
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I tend to play rather odd men. People that are slightly odd or eccentric, or have a more particular attitude to life.
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Excellence is not an act but a habit.
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I mean I can do it when I’m very relaxed, and with good friends, then I think I can be amusing.
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Enjoy your own company instead of expecting someone else make you happy.
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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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It’s a bit disconcerting being treated like Madonna.
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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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Art is something that nobody laughs at and nobody makes any money out of is the attitude, which I would dispute.
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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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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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Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a little sad. You’ve got to be careful.
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I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.
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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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The right to ridicule is far more important to society than any right not to be ridiculed because one in my view represents openness – and the other represents oppression.
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