Look, if I’d wanted a lecture on the rights of man, I’d have gone to bed with Martin Luther.
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.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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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.
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Art is something that nobody laughs at and nobody makes any money out of is the attitude, which I would dispute.
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Excellence is not an act but a habit.
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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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Sometimes I don’t feel like going to work but then I remember I was born cute not rich.
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I consider myself more of a visual comedian than a physical one.
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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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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 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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It’s not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.
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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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Lord, thy one-liners are as good as thy tricks. Thou art indeed an all-round family entertainer.
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Mr. Bean’: Childish, anarchic behaviour will always be funny.
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I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.
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feel as though the camera is almost a kind of voyeur in Mr. Bean’s life, and you just watch this bizarre man going about his life in the way that he wants to.
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