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I don’t think you should be too absolutist about what you play and what you don’t play.

Rowan Atkinson

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
Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.
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Barber Funny Humour Sarcastic Service
Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot before I can be even remotely amusing.
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Amuse Comics Funny Happen Natural Need Thinking
I think in many ways Johnny English is a more believable character.
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Actor Believe Character Film
Birthday meant to be another year to be Fabulous.
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Birthday Fabulous
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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Acting Call Difficult Irrelevant Job Shallow
Try to be creatively lead rather than market lead.
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Business Creative Market Try
In the modern media age, we are rarely surprised by what we see.
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Age Media Modernization Rare Surprise
But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
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Introspective Quiet Tend
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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Character Emphasis Goodbye Shift Wave
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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Age Character Regard Remember Time
I’m certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.
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Ambition Aware Minimalism Sophistication Suppress
For telling a good and incisive religious joke, you should be praised. For telling a bad one, you should be ridiculed and reviled. The idea that you could be prosecuted for the telling of either is quite fantastic.
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Fantastic Joke Praise Quite Religious Ridiculous
I enjoy it when it’s over! I enjoy whatever success we have. If an audience finds it funny, then it’s been worth it.
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Audience Enjoyment Funny Success Worth
It’s not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.
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Easy Feature
Look, if I’d wanted a lecture on the rights of man, I’d have gone to bed with Martin Luther.
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