I think you’re bound to get a sense of any character that you play. It’s not something you often do in comedy.
ROWAN ATKINSONI’m more critical of the films I make than anyone else.
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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 don’t think you should be too absolutist about what you play and what you don’t play.
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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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It’s a bit disconcerting being treated like Madonna.
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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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The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil’s own satanic herd!
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But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
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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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The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance has helped to determine your path through life.
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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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I’m not looking for anything other than an interesting role to play.
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Birthday meant to be another year to be Fabulous.
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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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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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I’m not a naturally funny man. I find that I can only be funny, if I become someone else.
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