The job is interesting, and the task is difficult, but the man is just a decent man doing a very ordinary job.
ROWAN ATKINSONIf you’re a serious actor, it’s when you know you’re going to die tomorrow that you really start to feel it.
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Excellence at everything you can do can be achieved on if it is a habit.
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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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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 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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I have always worried about things more than I should.
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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 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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I mean I can do it when I’m very relaxed, and with good friends, then I think I can be amusing.
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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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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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I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the ’50s and ’60s.
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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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I’m certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.
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I’m not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts.
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But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
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