I find his films about as funny as getting an arrow through the neck and discovering there’s a gas bill tied to it.
ROWAN ATKINSONI enjoy racing historic motorcars from the ’50s and ’60s.
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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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If you’re a serious actor, it’s when you know you’re going to die tomorrow that you really start to feel it.
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You’re about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
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Birthday meant to be another year to be Fabulous.
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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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We put a lot more value, or at least I personally put a lot more value, on the creative values and creative challenges of something than the commercial necessities.
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I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.
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I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the ’50s and ’60s.
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I am not really single, I am dating my self , I take my self out to eat, I buy myself clothes, I love me, I’m awesome.
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Don’t get too much emotionally attached to anyone.
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What is wrong with inciting intense dislike of a religion if the activities or teachings of that religion are so outrageous, irrational or abusive of human rights that they deserve to be intensely disliked?
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I would never wish to say that I’ve finally waved goodbye to any character, it’s just that the emphasis tends to shift.
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I consider myself more of a visual comedian than a physical one.
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For telling a good and incisive religious joke, you should be praised. For telling a bad one, you should be ridiculed and reviled. The idea that you could be prosecuted for the telling of either is quite fantastic.
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Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a little sad. You’ve got to be careful.
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Excellence at everything you can do can be achieved on if it is a habit.
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I have always worried about things more than I should.
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Sometimes I don’t feel like going to work but then I remember I was born cute not rich.
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I like to juggle with one ball at a time. Then I put the ball down and do nothing for extended periods of time.
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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’m not a collector. I don’t like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate.
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The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil’s own satanic herd!
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We must be allowed to insult each other.
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Mr. Bean’: Childish, anarchic behaviour will always be funny.
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I think you’re bound to get a sense of any character that you play. It’s not something you often do in comedy.
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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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