I’m not a collector. I don’t like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate.
ROWAN ATKINSONThe older you get, the more you realise how happenstance has helped to determine your path through life.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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If you’re a serious actor, it’s when you know you’re going to die tomorrow that you really start to feel it.
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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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But I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism.
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I have to say that I’ve always believed perfectionism is more of a disease than a quality. I do try to go with the flow but I can’t let go.
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Look, if I’d wanted a lecture on the rights of man, I’d have gone to bed with Martin Luther.
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We must be allowed to insult each other.
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I think in many ways Johnny English is a more believable character.
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Mr. Bean had a very good chance of being successful and long-running.
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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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In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don’t really need to explain very much at all.
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I enjoy it when it’s over! I enjoy whatever success we have. If an audience finds it funny, then it’s been worth it.
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Excellence at everything you can do can be achieved on if it is a habit.
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It’s not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.
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I’m not a naturally funny man. I find that I can only be funny, if I become someone else.
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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.
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