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Rowan Atkinson

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.
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Believe Disease Flow Let Go Perfection Quality Try
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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Amuse Friendship Relax Thinking
Mr. Bean had a very good chance of being successful and long-running.
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Chance Success
I would return to the Blackadder character if the opportunity came up. I have no qualms about that at all.
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Acting Character Opportunity
Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and nonverbal expression.
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Expression Home Silence
I’m not a collector. I don’t like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate.
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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 Lecture Man Right Sarcastic Want
I have always worried about things more than I should.
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Human Nature Worry
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.
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Ability Earn Market Money Natural Quality Right Sell
I don’t think you should be too absolutist about what you play and what you don’t play.
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Absolute Play Thinking
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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Alternative Criticism Insult Problem Sarcastic
I consider myself more of a visual comedian than a physical one.
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Comedy Consideration Myself Physical Visual
Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.
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Barber Funny Humour Sarcastic Service
I’m not a naturally funny man. I find that I can only be funny, if I become someone else.
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I tend to play rather odd men. People that are slightly odd or eccentric, or have a more particular attitude to life.
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The arts community still has a long lasting cynicism of the importance, or the artistic value, of comedy. Comedy is just farting about for money.
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