Rowan Atkinson Quotes

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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Believe Disease Flow Let Go Perfection Quality Try
Lord, thy one-liners are as good as thy tricks. Thou art indeed an all-round family entertainer.
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Entertainment Family Goodness Indeed Lord
Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a little sad. You’ve got to be careful.
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Children Decline Face Physical Sad
In the modern media age, we are rarely surprised by what we see.
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Age Media Modernization Rare Surprise
Excellence is not an act but a habit.
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Act Entrepreneur Excellence Habit One Liner
It’s not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.
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Easy Feature
I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the ’50s and ’60s.
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Car Enjoyment History Hobby Race
I don’t think you should be too absolutist about what you play and what you don’t play.
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Absolute Play Thinking
But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
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Introspective Quiet Tend
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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Acting Call Difficult Irrelevant Job Shallow
I’m not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts.
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Clever Creative Focus Instinct Particular
Marketing is what gets you noticed.
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Market Notice One Liner
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
Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.
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Barber Funny Humour Sarcastic Service
Excellence at everything you can do can be achieved on if it is a habit.
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Achievement Business Entrepreneur Excellence Habit
The one thing I would never wish it to be thought is that you play serious roles in order to achieve some sort of respectability which you can’t if you’re playing comedic roles.
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Achievement Comedy Play Respect Role Serious
I find his films about as funny as getting an arrow through the neck and discovering there’s a gas bill tied to it.
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Discover Film Finding Funny Gas Neck Sarcastic
I am not really single, I am dating my self , I take my self out to eat, I buy myself clothes, I love me, I’m awesome.
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Awesome Buy Clothes Date Love Myself Self Love Single
I’m not a naturally funny man. I find that I can only be funny, if I become someone else.
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Be Yourself Deep Finding Funny Man Natural
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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Amuse Friendship Relax Thinking
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
Sometimes I don’t feel like going to work but then I remember I was born cute not rich.
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Born Cute Funny Remember Rich Sarcastic Work
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
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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Dull Laugh People Performance Person Quiet Stage
I’m as poor as a church mouse, that’s just had an enormous tax bill on the very day his wife ran off with another mouse, taking all the cheese.
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Bill Cheese Enormous Mouse Poor Tax Wife
I’m not looking for anything other than an interesting role to play.
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Interesting Play Role
The job is interesting, and the task is difficult, but the man is just a decent man doing a very ordinary job.
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Decent Difficult Interesting Job Man Ordinary Task

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