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.
ROWAN ATKINSONWhen 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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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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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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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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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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I would return to the Blackadder character if the opportunity came up. I have no qualms about that at all.
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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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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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Art is something that nobody laughs at and nobody makes any money out of is the attitude, which I would dispute.
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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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In the modern media age, we are rarely surprised by what we see.
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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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My personal problem is that I take the business of film-making so seriously that I find it very difficult to relax.
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Try to be creatively lead rather than market lead.
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I’m not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts.
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Birthday meant to be another year to be Fabulous.
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