I find his films about as funny as getting an arrow through the neck and discovering there’s a gas bill tied to it.
ROWAN ATKINSONArt is something that nobody laughs at and nobody makes any money out of is the attitude, which I would dispute.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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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 think in many ways Johnny English is a more believable character.
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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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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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Try to be creatively lead rather than market lead.
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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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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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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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I have to say that I’ve always believed perfectionism is more of a disease than a quality. I do try to go with the flow but I can’t let go.
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Nope, I don’t enjoy work generally. Not because I’m lazy; it’s just all so stressful and worrying.
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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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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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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 had a very good chance of being successful and long-running.
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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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Lord, thy one-liners are as good as thy tricks. Thou art indeed an all-round family entertainer.
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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 don’t think you should be too absolutist about what you play and what you don’t play.
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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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But I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism.
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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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What is wrong with inciting intense dislike of a religion if the activities or teachings of that religion are so outrageous, irrational or abusive of human rights that they deserve to be intensely disliked?
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I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience.
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In the modern media age, we are rarely surprised by what we see.
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I’m certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.
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Don’t get too much emotionally attached to anyone.
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