You’re about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
ROWAN ATKINSONApart 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.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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I have always worried about things more than I should.
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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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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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I would never be a television presenter. It’s not something I could ever do.
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feel as though the camera is almost a kind of voyeur in Mr. Bean’s life, and you just watch this bizarre man going about his life in the way that he wants to.
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I consider myself more of a visual comedian than a physical one.
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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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I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the ’50s and ’60s.
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I think in many ways Johnny English is a more believable character.
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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’m certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.
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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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When I was doing Bean more than I’ve done him in the last few years, I did strange things – like appearing on chat shows in character as Mr. Bean.
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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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Excellence is not an act but a habit.
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