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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, Comedian
"I mean, I can do it when I'm very relaxed, and with good friends, then I think I can be amusing"
Rowan Atkinson, Comedian
"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, Comedian
"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, Comedian
"But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective"
Rowan Atkinson, Comedian
"And, we put a lot more value, or at least I personally put a lot more value, on the creative values and creative challenges of something than the commercial necessities"
Rowan Atkinson, Comedian
"And what's interesting about him as a comic character is that the custard pie hardly ever ends up on his face"
Rowan Atkinson, Comedian
"The only thing I have never done is a Broadway play. I'm not sure I have the discipline necessary to do a Broadway play. I know it holds a fascination for certain actors"
Bob Newhart, Comedian
"It was a decision to work clean. I just prefer to work that way. I have no problem with comedians who don't work that way. There was a temptation in the early '70s to reconsider. I decided against it"
Bob Newhart, Comedian
"I'm very open to the up-and-comers"
Bob Newhart, Comedian
"When I started out in 1960, I thought it might possibly last a couple of years. I never expected it to last 42. I take great satisfaction in that longevity"
Bob Newhart, Comedian
"This stammer got me a home in Beverly Hills, and I'm not about to screw with it now"
Bob Newhart, Comedian
"I was influenced by every comedian I ever saw work. That's the only way you learn how to do it"
Bob Newhart, Comedian
"I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that. Don't rush into adulthood, it isn't all that much fun"
Bob Newhart, Comedian
"All I can say about life is, 'Oh God, enjoy it!'"
Bob Newhart, Comedian
"I'm most proud of the longevity of my marriage, my kids, and my grandchildren. If you don't have that, you really don't have very much"
Bob Newhart, Comedian
"I don't have a stack of scripts"
Bob Newhart, Comedian
"Jack Benny was, without a doubt, the bravest comedian I have ever seen work. He wasn't afraid of silence. He would take as long as it took to tell the story"
Bob Newhart, Comedian
"The first time I got up in front of an audience was terror, abject terror, which continued for another four or five years. There still is, a little bit"
Bob Newhart, Comedian
"Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on"
Bob Newhart, Comedian
"I've been a very lucky actor"
Bob Newhart, Comedian
"I was never a Certified Public Accountant. I just had a degree in accounting. It would require passing a test, which I would not have been able to do"
Bob Newhart, Comedian
"I don't know how many sacred cows there are today. I think there's a little confusion between humor and gross passing for humor. That's kind of regrettable"
Bob Newhart, Comedian
"It's getting harder and harder to differentiate between schizophrenics and people talking on a cell phone. It still brings me up short to walk by somebody who appears to be talking to themselves"
Bob Newhart, Comedian
"Funny is funny is funny"
Bob Newhart, Comedian
"Comedians are never really on vacation because you're always at attention... that antenna is always out there"
Bob Newhart, Comedian
"Those hot pants of hers were so damned tight, I could hardly breathe"
Benny Hill, Comedian
"That's what show business is, sincere insincerity"
Benny Hill, Comedian
"I'm not against half naked girls - not as often as I'd like to be"
Benny Hill, Comedian
"I thought I couldn't afford to take her out and smoke as well. So I gave up cigarettes. Then I took her out and one day I looked at her and thought: "Oh well," and I went back to smoking again, and that was better"
Benny Hill, Comedian
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