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If you’re a serious actor, it’s when you know you’re going to die tomorrow that you really start to feel it.

Rowan Atkinson

I have a problem with Porsches. They’re wonderful cars, but I know I could never live with one.
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Car Problem Wonderful
Nope, I don’t enjoy work generally. Not because I’m lazy; it’s just all so stressful and worrying.
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Enjoyment Lazy Stress Work Worry
Mr. Bean’: Childish, anarchic behaviour will always be funny.
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Behaviour Funny
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
But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
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Introspective Quiet Tend
I’m not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts.
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Clever Creative Focus Instinct Particular
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
Try to be creatively lead rather than market lead.
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Business Creative Market Try
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
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.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Company Friendship Funny Heart Joke Quite Reason Serious
In the modern media age, we are rarely surprised by what we see.
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Age Media Modernization Rare Surprise
My personal problem is that I take the business of film-making so seriously that I find it very difficult to relax.
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Business Difficult Film Personal Problem Relax Serious
Marketing is what gets you noticed.
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Market Notice One Liner
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
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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Dull Laugh People Performance Person Quiet Stage
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 don’t think you should be too absolutist about what you play and what you don’t play.
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Absolute Play Thinking
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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Attempt Criticism Ideas Indeed Law Religious Ridiculous
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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Children Decline Face Physical Sad
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
I think in many ways Johnny English is a more believable character.
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Actor Believe Character Film
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 certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.
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Ambition Aware Minimalism Sophistication Suppress
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
Don’t get too much emotionally attached to anyone.
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Attachment Break Up Broken Heart Emotional Relationship
If you’re a serious actor, it’s when you know you’re going to die tomorrow that you really start to feel it.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Actor Die Feeling Future Serious Start
It’s a bit disconcerting being treated like Madonna.
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Cause Treatment

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