Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a little sad. You’ve got to be careful.
ROWAN ATKINSONThe arts community still has a long lasting cynicism of the importance, or the artistic value, of comedy. Comedy is just farting about for money.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.
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I like to juggle with one ball at a time. Then I put the ball down and do nothing for extended periods of time.
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We must be allowed to insult each other.
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Excellence is not an act but a habit.
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The job is interesting, and the task is difficult, but the man is just a decent man doing a very ordinary job.
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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.
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I’m more critical of the films I make than anyone else.
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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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I find his films about as funny as getting an arrow through the neck and discovering there’s a gas bill tied to it.
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I think in many ways Johnny English is a more believable character.
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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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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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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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Enjoy your own company instead of expecting someone else make you happy.
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I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the ’50s and ’60s.
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