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.
ROWAN ATKINSONI would return to the Blackadder character if the opportunity came up. I have no qualms about that at all.
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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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Lord, thy one-liners are as good as thy tricks. Thou art indeed an all-round family entertainer.
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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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Look, if I’d wanted a lecture on the rights of man, I’d have gone to bed with Martin Luther.
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When I was doing Bean more than I’ve done him in the last few years, I did strange things – like appearing on chat shows in character as Mr. Bean.
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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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It’s not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.
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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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Excellence is not an act but a habit.
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We must be allowed to insult each other.
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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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You’re about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
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Sometimes I don’t feel like going to work but then I remember I was born cute not rich.
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Birthday meant to be another year to be Fabulous.
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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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I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.
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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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Marketing is what gets you noticed.
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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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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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To be successful you don’t need beautiful face and heroic body, what you need is skillful mind and ability to perform.
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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 don’t think you should be too absolutist about what you play and what you don’t play.
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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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