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.
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.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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I consider myself more of a visual comedian than a physical one.
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Nope, I don’t enjoy work generally. Not because I’m lazy; it’s just all so stressful and worrying.
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Marketing is what gets you noticed.
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Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot before I can be even remotely amusing.
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It’s a bit disconcerting being treated like Madonna.
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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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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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In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don’t really need to explain very much at all.
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Look, if I’d wanted a lecture on the rights of man, I’d have gone to bed with Martin Luther.
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I’m more critical of the films I make than anyone else.
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I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the ’50s and ’60s.
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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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feel as though the camera is almost a kind of voyeur in Mr. Bean’s life, and you just watch this bizarre man going about his life in the way that he wants to.
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I’m not a collector. I don’t like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate.
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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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