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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.

Rowan Atkinson

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 ATKINSON

Children Decline Face Physical Sad
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
In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don’t really need to explain very much at all.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Commercial eed Explanation Television
I think you’re bound to get a sense of any character that you play. It’s not something you often do in comedy.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Character Comedy Play Sense Thinking
But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Introspective Quiet Tend
I don’t think you should be too absolutist about what you play and what you don’t play.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Absolute Play Thinking
Sometimes I don’t feel like going to work but then I remember I was born cute not rich.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Born Cute Funny Remember Rich Sarcastic Work
The job is interesting, and the task is difficult, but the man is just a decent man doing a very ordinary job.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Decent Difficult Interesting Job Man Ordinary Task
I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the ’50s and ’60s.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Car Enjoyment History Hobby Race
The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance has helped to determine your path through life.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Birthday Determination Happen Help Life Old Path Realise
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
The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil’s own satanic herd!
ROWAN ATKINSON

Cow Devil Life Path
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

Dull Laugh People Performance Person Quiet Stage
I consider myself more of a visual comedian than a physical one.
ROWAN ATKINSON

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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
Art is something that nobody laughs at and nobody makes any money out of is the attitude, which I would dispute.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Art Attitude Dispute Laugh Money

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