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Excellence is not an act but a habit.

Rowan Atkinson

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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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 think in many ways Johnny English is a more believable character.
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In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don’t really need to explain very much at all.
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We must be allowed to insult each other.
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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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It’s a bit disconcerting being treated like Madonna.
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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 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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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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I’m not looking for anything other than an interesting role to play.
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I have always worried about things more than I should.
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Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.
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I’m not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts.
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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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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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