To be successful you don’t need beautiful face and heroic body, what you need is skillful mind and ability to perform.
ROWAN ATKINSONIn TV, and in particular in commercials, you don’t really need to explain very much at all.
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A law which attempts to say you can criticize and ridicule ideas as long as they are not religious ideas is a very peculiar law indeed.
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Excellence at everything you can do can be achieved on if it is a habit.
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I can be reasonably funny and light-hearted when I’m in the company of good friends, but I’m not a jokesmith. I tend to be quite serious.
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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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In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don’t really need to explain very much at all.
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I mean I can do it when I’m very relaxed, and with good friends, then I think I can be amusing.
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I’m certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.
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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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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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We must be allowed to insult each other.
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I’m not a naturally funny man. I find that I can only be funny, if I become someone else.
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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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If you want to be strong learn to live alone.
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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.
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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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