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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.

Rowan Atkinson

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
I’m not a naturally funny man. I find that I can only be funny, if I become someone else.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Be Yourself Deep Finding Funny Man Natural
Art is something that nobody laughs at and nobody makes any money out of is the attitude, which I would dispute.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Art Attitude Dispute Laugh Money
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
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
In the modern media age, we are rarely surprised by what we see.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Age Media Modernization Rare Surprise
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
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.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Oppression Represent Ridiculous Right Society
Marketing is what gets you noticed, and that side of it something – this side of it, if you like, doing interviews – is the side of it that I least enjoy, and yet is 50% of the project.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Enjoyment Interview Market Notice Project
The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil’s own satanic herd!
ROWAN ATKINSON

Cow Devil Life Path
I’m not a collector. I don’t like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Car Cause Evaporation Toy
You’re about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Contest Humour Man Sarcastic
I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Different Express Inclination Myself Performance Want
I’m not looking for anything other than an interesting role to play.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Interesting Play Role
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

Bill Cheese Enormous Mouse Poor Tax Wife
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.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Awesome Buy Clothes Date Love Myself Self Love Single

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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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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