I would return to the Blackadder character if the opportunity came up. I have no qualms about that at all.
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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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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I am not really single, I am dating my self , I take my self out to eat, I buy myself clothes, I love me, I’m awesome.
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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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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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I find his films about as funny as getting an arrow through the neck and discovering there’s a gas bill tied to it.
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I think in many ways Johnny English is a more believable character.
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Lord, thy one-liners are as good as thy tricks. Thou art indeed an all-round family entertainer.
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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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But I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism.
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You’re about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
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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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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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It’s not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.
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Birthday meant to be another year to be Fabulous.
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Art is something that nobody laughs at and nobody makes any money out of is the attitude, which I would dispute.
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I don’t think you should be too absolutist about what you play and what you don’t play.
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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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We put a lot more value, or at least I personally put a lot more value, on the creative values and creative challenges of something than the commercial necessities.
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But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
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I’m certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.
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I’m not a collector. I don’t like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate.
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If you want to be strong learn to live alone.
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Excellence at everything you can do can be achieved on if it is a habit.
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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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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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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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