I’m not a collector. I don’t like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate.
ROWAN ATKINSONI enjoy racing historic motorcars from the ’50s and ’60s.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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It’s a bit disconcerting being treated like Madonna.
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Excellence at everything you can do can be achieved on if it is a habit.
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Don’t get too much emotionally attached to anyone.
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What is wrong with inciting intense dislike of a religion if the activities or teachings of that religion are so outrageous, irrational or abusive of human rights that they deserve to be intensely disliked?
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In the modern media age, we are rarely surprised by what we see.
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I’m not looking for anything other than an interesting role to play.
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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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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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I would return to the Blackadder character if the opportunity came up. I have no qualms about that at all.
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Nope, I don’t enjoy work generally. Not because I’m lazy; it’s just all so stressful and worrying.
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I consider myself more of a visual comedian than a physical one.
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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.
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Enjoy your own company instead of expecting someone else make you happy.
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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.
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Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and nonverbal expression.
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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 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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Marketing is what gets you noticed.
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I think in many ways Johnny English is a more believable character.
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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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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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I’m more critical of the films I make than anyone else.
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I have always worried about things more than I should.
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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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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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