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.
ROWAN ATKINSONI’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.
ROWAN ATKINSONDon’t get too much emotionally attached to anyone.
ROWAN ATKINSONBut generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
ROWAN ATKINSONI tend to play rather odd men. People that are slightly odd or eccentric, or have a more particular attitude to life.
ROWAN ATKINSONYou’re about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
ROWAN ATKINSONMarketing 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.
ROWAN ATKINSONI’m not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts.
ROWAN ATKINSONMr. Bean’: Childish, anarchic behaviour will always be funny.
ROWAN ATKINSONBut I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism.
ROWAN ATKINSONNope, I don’t enjoy work generally. Not because I’m lazy; it’s just all so stressful and worrying.
ROWAN ATKINSONIf 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 ATKINSONMr. Bean is essentially a child trapped in the body of a man. All cultures identify with children in a similar way, so he has this bizarre global outreach.
ROWAN ATKINSONIf 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 ATKINSONThe arts community still has a long lasting cynicism of the importance, or the artistic value, of comedy. Comedy is just farting about for money.
ROWAN ATKINSONMy personal problem is that I take the business of film-making so seriously that I find it very difficult to relax.
ROWAN ATKINSONWe must be allowed to insult each other.
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