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But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.

Rowan Atkinson

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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Company Friendship Funny Heart Joke Quite Reason Serious
We must be allowed to insult each other.
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Allow Funny Insult Sarcastic
I don’t think you should be too absolutist about what you play and what you don’t play.
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The job is interesting, and the task is difficult, but the man is just a decent man doing a very ordinary job.
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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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Marketing is what gets you noticed, and that side of it something – this side of it, if you like, doing interviews – is the side of it that I least enjoy, and yet is 50% of the project.
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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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Achievement Comedy Play Respect Role Serious
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
People 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 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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Excellence is not an act but a habit.
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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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It’s a bit disconcerting being treated like Madonna.
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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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Actor Attitude Particular People Play
Art is something that nobody laughs at and nobody makes any money out of is the attitude, which I would dispute.
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The right to ridicule is far more important to society than any right not to be ridiculed because one in my view represents openness – and the other represents oppression.
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