The job is interesting, and the task is difficult, but the man is just a decent man doing a very ordinary job.
ROWAN ATKINSONIf you want to be strong learn to live alone.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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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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The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil’s own satanic herd!
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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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I’m not looking for anything other than an interesting role to play.
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But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
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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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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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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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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 would never be a television presenter. It’s not something I could ever do.
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I think in many ways Johnny English is a more believable character.
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Try to be creatively lead rather than market lead.
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The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance has helped to determine your path through life.
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I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the ’50s and ’60s.
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