I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the ’50s and ’60s.
ROWAN ATKINSONI don’t think you should be too absolutist about what you play and what you don’t play.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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I’m not a collector. I don’t like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate.
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The one thing I would never wish it to be thought is that you play serious roles in order to achieve some sort of respectability which you can’t if you’re playing comedic roles.
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I’m certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.
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I’m not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts.
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Excellence is not an act but a habit.
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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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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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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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But I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism.
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Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.
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My personal problem is that I take the business of film-making so seriously that I find it very difficult to relax.
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The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil’s own satanic herd!
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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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I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience.
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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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