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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

I’m more critical of the films I make than anyone else.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Criticism Film
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.
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Bill Cheese Enormous Mouse Poor Tax Wife
Excellence is not an act but a habit.
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Act Entrepreneur Excellence Habit One Liner
I have always worried about things more than I should.
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Human Nature Worry
Try to be creatively lead rather than market lead.
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Business Creative Market Try
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.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Alternative Criticism Insult Problem Sarcastic
In the modern media age, we are rarely surprised by what we see.
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Age Media Modernization Rare Surprise
Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and nonverbal expression.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Expression Home Silence
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.
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Enjoyment Interview Market Notice Project
I’m certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.
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Ambition Aware Minimalism Sophistication Suppress
Lord, thy one-liners are as good as thy tricks. Thou art indeed an all-round family entertainer.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Entertainment Family Goodness Indeed Lord
But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
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Introspective Quiet Tend
To be successful you don’t need beautiful face and heroic body, what you need is skillful mind and ability to perform.
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Ability Beautiful Inspirational Need Performance Skill Success
I would never wish to say that I’ve finally waved goodbye to any character, it’s just that the emphasis tends to shift.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Character Emphasis Goodbye Shift Wave
I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the ’50s and ’60s.
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Car Enjoyment History Hobby Race
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

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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