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.
ROWAN ATKINSONTry to be creatively lead rather than market lead.
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I am not really single, I am dating my self , I take my self out to eat, I buy myself clothes, I love me, I’m awesome.
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In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don’t really need to explain very much 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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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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I have a problem with Porsches. They’re wonderful cars, but I know I could never live with one.
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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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If you want to be strong learn to live alone.
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Excellence is not an act but a habit.
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It’s not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.
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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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I consider myself more of a visual comedian than a physical one.
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We must be allowed to insult each other.
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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’m more critical of the films I make than anyone else.
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In the modern media age, we are rarely surprised by what we see.
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