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I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.

Rowan Atkinson

The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance has helped to determine your path through life.
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Birthday Determination Happen Help Life Old Path Realise
You’re about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
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Contest Humour Man Sarcastic
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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Audience Confidence Finding Funny Minimalism Pretty Simplicity Taste
I’m not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts.
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Clever Creative Focus Instinct Particular
I’m not looking for anything other than an interesting role to play.
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Interesting Play Role
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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Art Comedy Community Importance Money Value
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
When I was doing Bean more than I’ve done him in the last few years, I did strange things – like appearing on chat shows in character as Mr. Bean.
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Appearance Character Chat Done Show Strange
Excellence is not an act but a habit.
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Act Entrepreneur Excellence Habit One Liner
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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Ball Extend Period Time
I think in many ways Johnny English is a more believable character.
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Actor Believe Character Film
feel as though the camera is almost a kind of voyeur in Mr. Bean’s life, and you just watch this bizarre man going about his life in the way that he wants to.
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Camera Man Want
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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Oppression Represent Ridiculous Right Society
Don’t get too much emotionally attached to anyone.
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Attachment Break Up Broken Heart Emotional Relationship
But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
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Introspective Quiet Tend
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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Enjoyment Interview Market Notice Project

I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.

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I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.

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