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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

Excellence at everything you can do can be achieved on if it is a habit.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Achievement Business Entrepreneur Excellence Habit
I would return to the Blackadder character if the opportunity came up. I have no qualms about that at all.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Acting Character Opportunity
I would never be a television presenter. It’s not something I could ever do.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Actor Television
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.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Believe Disease Flow Let Go Perfection Quality Try
Try to be creatively lead rather than market lead.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Business Creative Market Try
In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don’t really need to explain very much at all.
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Commercial eed Explanation Television
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
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
Mr. Bean’: Childish, anarchic behaviour will always be funny.
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Behaviour Funny
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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Character Comedy Play Sense Thinking
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
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
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
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.
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Body Children Culture Essential Man
Nope, I don’t enjoy work generally. Not because I’m lazy; it’s just all so stressful and worrying.
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Enjoyment Lazy Stress Work Worry
I’m certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Ambition Aware Minimalism Sophistication Suppress

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