I’m not a naturally funny man. I find that I can only be funny, if I become someone else.
ROWAN ATKINSONThe job is interesting, and the task is difficult, but the man is just a decent man doing a very ordinary job.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.
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I have a problem with Porsches. They’re wonderful cars, but I know I could never live with one.
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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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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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Try to be creatively lead rather than market lead.
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You’re about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
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I like to juggle with one ball at a time. Then I put the ball down and do nothing for extended periods of time.
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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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Sometimes I don’t feel like going to work but then I remember I was born cute not rich.
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I’m more critical of the films I make than anyone else.
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Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a little sad. You’ve got to be careful.
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I don’t think you should be too absolutist about what you play and what you don’t play.
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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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I consider myself more of a visual comedian than a physical one.
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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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