#la

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first. ↗

— Brooks Atkinson

#day #first #half #labor #try

A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that. ↗

— Chet Atkins

#apprenticeship #formula #give #i #logical

Brooke was special in the sense that we grew up together on that island. ↗

— Christopher Atkins

#grew #island #sense #special #together

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

#aware #certainly #clever #confidence #creative

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

#commercials #explain #good #his #job

In other words, if you - the cost of promoting movies, the advertising and promotion of a movie, the budget is almost as large as the cost of the movie. ↗

— Richard Attenborough

#almost #budget #cost #in other words #large

Of course, some would say if you have a performing inclination, then you should become a lawyer. That's a platform we use, or a priest. You know, anywhere you lecture and pontificate to people. ↗

— Rowan Atkinson

#become #course #inclination #know #lawyer

There is always that age-old thing about England and America being divided by a common language. You think that because we speak English and you speak English that you're bound to understand and like everything that we do. And of course you don't. ↗

— Rowan Atkinson

#age-old #always #america #because #being

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

#certainly #challenging #english #faded #five

Getting to places like Bangkok or Singapore was a hell of a sweat. But when you got there it was the back of beyond. It was just a series of small tin sheds. ↗

— David Attenborough

#bangkok #beyond #getting #got #hell