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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.

Rowan Atkinson

We must be allowed to insult each other.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Allow Funny Insult Sarcastic
Try to be creatively lead rather than market lead.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Business Creative Market Try
It’s not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Easy Feature
People think because I can make them laugh on the stage, I’ll be able to make them laugh in person. That isn’t the case at all. I am essentially a rather quiet, dull person who just happens to be a performer.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Dull Laugh People Performance Person Quiet Stage
Art is something that nobody laughs at and nobody makes any money out of is the attitude, which I would dispute.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Art Attitude Dispute Laugh Money
I enjoy it when it’s over! I enjoy whatever success we have. If an audience finds it funny, then it’s been worth it.
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Audience Enjoyment Funny Success Worth
I don’t think you should be too absolutist about what you play and what you don’t play.
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Absolute Play Thinking
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 ATKINSON

Enjoyment Interview Market Notice Project
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.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Alternative Criticism Insult Problem Sarcastic
To be successful you don’t need beautiful face and heroic body, what you need is skillful mind and ability to perform.
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Ability Beautiful Inspirational Need Performance Skill Success
Excellence at everything you can do can be achieved on if it is a habit.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Achievement Business Entrepreneur Excellence Habit
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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Oppression Represent Ridiculous Right Society
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.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Ability Earn Market Money Natural Quality Right Sell
Mr. Bean had a very good chance of being successful and long-running.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Chance Success
I would never be a television presenter. It’s not something I could ever do.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Actor Television
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 ATKINSON

Bill Cheese Enormous Mouse Poor Tax Wife

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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