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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

Marketing is what gets you noticed.
ROWAN ATKINSON

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.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Amuse Friendship Relax Thinking
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 enjoy racing historic motorcars from the ’50s and ’60s.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Car Enjoyment History Hobby Race
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
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
Excellence is not an act but a habit.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Act Entrepreneur Excellence Habit One Liner
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
I tend to play rather odd men. People that are slightly odd or eccentric, or have a more particular attitude to life.
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Actor Attitude Particular People Play
Nope, I don’t enjoy work generally. Not because I’m lazy; it’s just all so stressful and worrying.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Enjoyment Lazy Stress Work Worry
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
It’s a bit disconcerting being treated like Madonna.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Cause Treatment
I would never be a television presenter. It’s not something I could ever do.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Actor Television
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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Attempt Criticism Ideas Indeed Law Religious Ridiculous
Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Barber Funny Humour Sarcastic Service
I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Audience Confidence Finding Funny Minimalism Pretty Simplicity Taste

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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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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