I tend to play rather odd men. People that are slightly odd or eccentric, or have a more particular attitude to life.
ROWAN ATKINSONI’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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Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot before I can be even remotely amusing.
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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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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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Sometimes I don’t feel like going to work but then I remember I was born cute not rich.
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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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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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Look, if I’d wanted a lecture on the rights of man, I’d have gone to bed with Martin Luther.
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I have always worried about things more than I should.
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Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.
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I’m not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts.
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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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Nope, I don’t enjoy work generally. Not because I’m lazy; it’s just all so stressful and worrying.
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Excellence at everything you can do can be achieved on if it is a habit.
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You’re about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
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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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