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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

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.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Attempt Criticism Ideas Indeed Law Religious Ridiculous
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 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
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.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Appearance Character Chat Done Show Strange
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.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Company Friendship Funny Heart Joke Quite Reason Serious
Excellence is not an act but a habit.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Act Entrepreneur Excellence Habit One Liner
Mr. Bean had a very good chance of being successful and long-running.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Chance Success
It’s not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.
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Easy Feature
Look, if I’d wanted a lecture on the rights of man, I’d have gone to bed with Martin Luther.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Funny Lecture Man Right Sarcastic Want
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
I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the ’50s and ’60s.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Car Enjoyment History Hobby Race
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’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
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
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 don’t think you should be too absolutist about what you play and what you don’t play.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Absolute Play Thinking

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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