Sometimes I don’t feel like going to work but then I remember I was born cute not rich.
ROWAN ATKINSONFunny 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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The arts community still has a long lasting cynicism of the importance, or the artistic value, of comedy. Comedy is just farting about for money.
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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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You’re about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
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Lord, thy one-liners are as good as thy tricks. Thou art indeed an all-round family entertainer.
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It’s not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.
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Excellence is not an act but a habit.
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I have always regarded Mr. Bean as a timeless, ageless character, and I would rather he be remembered as a character mostly in his 30s and 40s.
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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.
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I tend to play rather odd men. People that are slightly odd or eccentric, or have a more particular attitude to life.
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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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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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I would return to the Blackadder character if the opportunity came up. I have no qualms about that at all.
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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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Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and nonverbal expression.
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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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