I can be reasonably funny and light-hearted when I’m in the company of good friends, but I’m not a jokesmith. I tend to be quite serious.
ROWAN ATKINSONBirthday meant to be another year to be Fabulous.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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If you want to be strong learn to live alone.
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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 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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Mr. Bean had a very good chance of being successful and long-running.
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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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Enjoy your own company instead of expecting someone else make you happy.
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Mr. Bean is essentially a child trapped in the body of a man. All cultures identify with children in a similar way, so he has this bizarre global outreach.
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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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Lord, thy one-liners are as good as thy tricks. Thou art indeed an all-round family entertainer.
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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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I consider myself more of a visual comedian than a physical one.
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But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
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In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don’t really need to explain very much at all.
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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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