I think in many ways Johnny English is a more believable character.
ROWAN ATKINSONI would return to the Blackadder character if the opportunity came up. I have no qualms about that at all.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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Try to be creatively lead rather than market lead.
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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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But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
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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 don’t think you should be too absolutist about what you play and what you don’t play.
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Don’t get too much emotionally attached to anyone.
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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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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 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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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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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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I consider myself more of a visual comedian than a physical one.
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I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the ’50s and ’60s.
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Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.
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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.
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