I’m not looking for anything other than an interesting role to play.
ROWAN ATKINSONLook, if I’d wanted a lecture on the rights of man, I’d have gone to bed with Martin Luther.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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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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It’s a bit disconcerting being treated like Madonna.
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I consider myself more of a visual comedian than a physical one.
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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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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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Try to be creatively lead rather than market lead.
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Excellence is not an act but a habit.
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But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
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I have always worried about things more than I should.
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I would never be a television presenter. It’s not something I could ever do.
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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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But I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism.
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Enjoy your own company instead of expecting someone else make you happy.
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I’m not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts.
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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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