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

Rowan Atkinson

I don’t think you should be too absolutist about what you play and what you don’t play.
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Absolute Play Thinking
In the modern media age, we are rarely surprised by what we see.
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Age Media Modernization Rare Surprise
Marketing is what gets you noticed.
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Market Notice One Liner
I mean I can do it when I’m very relaxed, and with good friends, then I think I can be amusing.
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Amuse Friendship Relax Thinking
I’m not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts.
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Clever Creative Focus Instinct Particular
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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Car Cause Evaporation Toy
I have always regarded Mr. Bean as a timeless, ageless character, and I would rather he be remembered as a character mostly in his 30s and 40s.
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Age Character Regard Remember Time
My personal problem is that I take the business of film-making so seriously that I find it very difficult to relax.
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Business Difficult Film Personal Problem Relax Serious
It’s a bit disconcerting being treated like Madonna.
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Cause Treatment
Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot before I can be even remotely amusing.
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Amuse Comics Funny Happen Natural Need Thinking
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.
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Alternative Criticism Insult Problem Sarcastic
I suddenly think the job of acting is a difficult one. It’s not as flip, irrelevant, and shallow a calling as I thought it was in the Eighties.
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Acting Call Difficult Irrelevant Job Shallow
I have always worried about things more than I should.
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Human Nature Worry
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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Believe Disease Flow Let Go Perfection Quality Try
I would never wish to say that I’ve finally waved goodbye to any character, it’s just that the emphasis tends to shift.
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Character Emphasis Goodbye Shift Wave
The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil’s own satanic herd!
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Cow Devil Life Path

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

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