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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.

Rowan Atkinson

If you’re a serious actor, it’s when you know you’re going to die tomorrow that you really start to feel it.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Actor Die Feeling Future Serious Start
I mean I can do it when I’m very relaxed, and with good friends, then I think I can be amusing.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Amuse Friendship Relax Thinking
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.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Fantastic Joke Praise Quite Religious Ridiculous
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.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Acting Call Difficult Irrelevant Job Shallow
I like to juggle with one ball at a time. Then I put the ball down and do nothing for extended periods of time.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Ball Extend Period Time
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.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Achievement Comedy Play Respect Role Serious
I’m certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Ambition Aware Minimalism Sophistication Suppress
Nope, I don’t enjoy work generally. Not because I’m lazy; it’s just all so stressful and worrying.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Enjoyment Lazy Stress Work Worry
The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance has helped to determine your path through life.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Birthday Determination Happen Help Life Old Path Realise
If you get the quality right, then the marketability or whatever; your ability to sell videos or your ability to earn money or whatever, will follow naturally.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Ability Earn Market Money Natural Quality Right Sell
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.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Age Character Regard Remember Time
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.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Body Children Culture Essential Man
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.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Alternative Criticism Insult Problem Sarcastic
But I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Actor Confidence Feeling Inspirational Perfection Suppose
I’m more critical of the films I make than anyone else.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Criticism Film
Lord, thy one-liners are as good as thy tricks. Thou art indeed an all-round family entertainer.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Entertainment Family Goodness Indeed Lord

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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