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Rowan Atkinson
Rowan Atkinson
English Comedian
Born: Jan 6, 1956
About Bean Character Good Think You
Related authors: Benny Hill James Acaster Jimmy Carr Julian Clary Les Dawson Norman Wisdom Russell Brand Sara Pascoe
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. Rowan Atkinson
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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. Rowan Atkinson
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The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance... has helped to determine your path through life. Rowan Atkinson
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But I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism. Rowan Atkinson
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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. Rowan Atkinson
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But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective. Rowan Atkinson
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I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the '50s and '60s. The seed of my interest was planted when I was about 12 years old and took over my mother's Morris Minor. I drove it around my father's farm. But my favorite car is still a McLaren F1, which I have had for 10 years. Rowan Atkinson
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I have to say that I've always believed perfectionism is more of a disease than a quality. I do try to go with the flow but I can't let go. Rowan Atkinson
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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. I'm not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts. And I'm certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions. Rowan Atkinson
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In the modern media age we are rarely surprised by what we see. Whether it's on television or film or in the theatre, everything is so advertised, so trailed, that most entertainment is merely what you thought it was going to be like. Rowan Atkinson
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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. Rowan Atkinson
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I have always worried about things more than I should. Rowan Atkinson
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I don't much enjoy Back and Forth. I mean, I think it has its own particular qualities, but I think it's inferior to any of the half-hour ones we did. Rowan Atkinson
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I think the character does tend to suit an episodic thing, because what's fun about him is that he doesn't care about anyone else, and it's very difficult for a main character - a lead character - in a movie to not care about anybody else. Rowan Atkinson
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Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to be this jewel, this sort of two headed tradition of doing comedy, of doing sketches, and that kind of thing. Rowan Atkinson
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Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and, of course, you can't see the alleged billions watching at home either, so the degree to which you are intimidated is quite low. Rowan Atkinson
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And what's interesting about him as a comic character is that the custard pie hardly ever ends up on his face. Rowan Atkinson
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Get that right, then- 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. But try to be creatively lead rather than market lead. And that's important to me. Rowan Atkinson
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No, no, I was only funny on stage, really. I, I, think I was funny as a person toward my classmates when I was very young. You know, when I was a child, up to about the age of 12. Rowan Atkinson
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Not so much in Canada, but certainly in the US, as I'm sure you know, money is all, and if they can get another 26 programs of the same thing even though it advances the culture or those actor's careers not at all it doesn't matter. Rowan Atkinson
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We still have a tradition certainly in English television; it's faded a bit in the last five years, but we still have a tradition where the important thing is the quality and the challenging nature of the programming. Rowan Atkinson
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I would return to the Blackadder character if the opportunity came up. I have no qualms about that at all. Rowan Atkinson
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In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don't really need to explain very much at all - you just say he's a spy and he's a little bit theatrical and overblown and smug and he's not very good at his job. Rowan Atkinson
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It's a bit disconcerting being treated like Madonna. Rowan Atkinson
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Nope, I don't enjoy work generally. Not because I'm lazy; it's just all so stressful and worrying. Rowan Atkinson
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I consider myself more of a visual comedian than a physical one. Rowan Atkinson
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