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Excellence is not an act but a habit.

Rowan Atkinson

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 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
The right to ridicule is far more important to society than any right not to be ridiculed because one in my view represents openness – and the other represents oppression.
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Oppression Represent Ridiculous Right Society
I can be reasonably funny and light-hearted when I’m in the company of good friends, but I’m not a jokesmith. I tend to be quite serious.
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Company Friendship Funny Heart Joke Quite Reason Serious
The job is interesting, and the task is difficult, but the man is just a decent man doing a very ordinary job.
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Decent Difficult Interesting Job Man Ordinary Task
Excellence at everything you can do can be achieved on if it is a habit.
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Achievement Business Entrepreneur Excellence Habit
Mr. Bean’: Childish, anarchic behaviour will always be funny.
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Behaviour Funny
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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Expression Home Silence
I think you’re bound to get a sense of any character that you play. It’s not something you often do in comedy.
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Character Comedy Play Sense Thinking
Marketing is what gets you noticed.
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Market Notice 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 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.
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Believe Disease Flow Let Go Perfection Quality Try
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
I’m not a naturally funny man. I find that I can only be funny, if I become someone else.
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Be Yourself Deep Finding Funny Man Natural
I would return to the Blackadder character if the opportunity came up. I have no qualms about that at all.
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Acting Character Opportunity
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.
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Ability Earn Market Money Natural Quality Right Sell

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