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 ATKINSONI consider myself more of a visual comedian than a physical one.
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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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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 think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience.
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But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
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We must be allowed to insult each other.
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It’s not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.
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I’m certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.
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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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I consider myself more of a visual comedian than a physical one.
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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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Sometimes I don’t feel like going to work but then I remember I was born cute not rich.
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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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I’m not looking for anything other than an interesting role to play.
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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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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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