If you’re a serious actor, it’s when you know you’re going to die tomorrow that you really start to feel it.
ROWAN ATKINSONPeople 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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I have a problem with Porsches. They’re wonderful cars, but I know I could never live with one.
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When I was doing Bean more than I’ve done him in the last few years, I did strange things – like appearing on chat shows in character as Mr. Bean.
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To be successful you don’t need beautiful face and heroic body, what you need is skillful mind and ability to perform.
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I can be reasonably funny and light-hearted when I’m in the company of good friends, but I’m not a jokesmith. I tend to be quite serious.
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I enjoy it when it’s over! I enjoy whatever success we have. If an audience finds it funny, then it’s been worth it.
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Nope, I don’t enjoy work generally. Not because I’m lazy; it’s just all so stressful and worrying.
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Enjoy your own company instead of expecting someone else make you happy.
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I have always worried about things more than I should.
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I would return to the Blackadder character if the opportunity came up. I have no qualms about that at all.
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Look, if I’d wanted a lecture on the rights of man, I’d have gone to bed with Martin Luther.
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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.
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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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Birthday meant to be another year to be Fabulous.
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But I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism.
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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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