Sometimes I don’t feel like going to work but then I remember I was born cute not rich.
ROWAN ATKINSONA law which attempts to say you can criticize and ridicule ideas as long as they are not religious ideas is a very peculiar law indeed.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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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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In the modern media age, we are rarely surprised by what we see.
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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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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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But I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism.
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We put a lot more value, or at least I personally put a lot more value, on the creative values and creative challenges of something than the commercial necessities.
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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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I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the ’50s and ’60s.
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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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I have always regarded Mr. Bean as a timeless, ageless character, and I would rather he be remembered as a character mostly in his 30s and 40s.
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Excellence is not an act but a habit.
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It’s a bit disconcerting being treated like Madonna.
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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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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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Enjoy your own company instead of expecting someone else make you happy.
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