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.
ROWAN ATKINSONI 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’m not looking for anything other than an interesting role to play.
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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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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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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 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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Excellence is not an act but a habit.
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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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Excellence at everything you can do can be achieved on if it is a habit.
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But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
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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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The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil’s own satanic herd!
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Don’t get too much emotionally attached to anyone.
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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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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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