The job is interesting, and the task is difficult, but the man is just a decent man doing a very ordinary job.
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.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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In the modern media age, we are rarely surprised by what we see.
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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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I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience.
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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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If you want to be strong learn to live alone.
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I don’t think you should be too absolutist about what you play and what you don’t play.
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Birthday meant to be another year to be Fabulous.
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A law which attempts to say you can criticize and ridicule ideas as long as they are not religious ideas is a very peculiar law indeed.
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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 would return to the Blackadder character if the opportunity came up. I have no qualms about that at all.
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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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I’m not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts.
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Mr. Bean is essentially a child trapped in the body of a man. All cultures identify with children in a similar way, so he has this bizarre global outreach.
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We must be allowed to insult each other.
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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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