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.
ROWAN ATKINSONI have always worried about things more than I should.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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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.
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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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Mr. Bean’: Childish, anarchic behaviour will always be funny.
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Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.
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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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I’m not a naturally funny man. I find that I can only be funny, if I become someone else.
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Excellence at everything you can do can be achieved on if it is a habit.
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I would never wish to say that I’ve finally waved goodbye to any character, it’s just that the emphasis tends to shift.
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Mr. Bean had a very good chance of being successful and long-running.
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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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The one thing I would never wish it to be thought is that you play serious roles in order to achieve some sort of respectability which you can’t if you’re playing comedic roles.
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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.
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Excellence is not an act but a habit.
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I would never be a television presenter. It’s not something I could ever do.
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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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