We must be allowed to insult each other.
ROWAN ATKINSONI’m not looking for anything other than an interesting role to play.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance has helped to determine your path through life.
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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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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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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 want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.
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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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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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Marketing is what gets you noticed.
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In the modern media age, we are rarely surprised by what we see.
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Mr. Bean had a very good chance of being successful and long-running.
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I think in many ways Johnny English is a more believable character.
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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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I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the ’50s and ’60s.
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The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely stating an alternative point of view to the orthodoxy, can be interpreted as insult.
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