Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.
ROWAN ATKINSONPeople 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.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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Don’t get too much emotionally attached to anyone.
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I tend to play rather odd men. People that are slightly odd or eccentric, or have a more particular attitude to life.
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The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance has helped to determine your path through life.
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When I was doing Bean more than I’ve done him in the last few years, I did strange things – like appearing on chat shows in character as Mr. Bean.
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I’m not a collector. I don’t like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate.
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It’s a bit disconcerting being treated like Madonna.
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I like to juggle with one ball at a time. Then I put the ball down and do nothing for extended periods of time.
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I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the ’50s and ’60s.
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What is wrong with inciting intense dislike of a religion if the activities or teachings of that religion are so outrageous, irrational or abusive of human rights that they deserve to be intensely disliked?
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Excellence at everything you can do can be achieved on if it is a habit.
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A 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.
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I’m not looking for anything other than an interesting role to play.
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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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Lord, thy one-liners are as good as thy tricks. Thou art indeed an all-round family entertainer.
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I can be reasonably funny and light-hearted when I’m in the company of good friends, but I’m not a jokesmith. I tend to be quite serious.
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