Marketing is what gets you noticed.
ROWAN ATKINSONMarketing is what gets you noticed.
ROWAN ATKINSONMy personal problem is that I take the business of film-making so seriously that I find it very difficult to relax.
ROWAN ATKINSONApart 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.
ROWAN ATKINSONWhat 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?
ROWAN ATKINSONI 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.
ROWAN ATKINSONPeople 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.
ROWAN ATKINSONI’m not looking for anything other than an interesting role to play.
ROWAN ATKINSONThe 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.
ROWAN ATKINSONBut generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
ROWAN ATKINSONTo be successful you don’t need beautiful face and heroic body, what you need is skillful mind and ability to perform.
ROWAN ATKINSONBirthday meant to be another year to be Fabulous.
ROWAN ATKINSONI think in many ways Johnny English is a more believable character.
ROWAN ATKINSONI’m certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.
ROWAN ATKINSONI find his films about as funny as getting an arrow through the neck and discovering there’s a gas bill tied to it.
ROWAN ATKINSONExcellence is not an act but a habit.
ROWAN ATKINSONYou’re about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
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