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Rowan Atkinson

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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Actor Attitude Particular People Play
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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Company Friendship Funny Heart Joke Quite Reason Serious
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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Art Attitude Dispute Laugh Money
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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Amuse Comics Funny Happen Natural Need Thinking
If 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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Actor Die Feeling Future Serious Start
Sometimes I don’t feel like going to work but then I remember I was born cute not rich.
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Born Cute Funny Remember Rich Sarcastic Work
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
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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Awesome Buy Clothes Date Love Myself Self Love Single
Excellence is not an act but a habit.
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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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Ability Beautiful Inspirational Need Performance Skill Success
I consider myself more of a visual comedian than a physical one.
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Comedy Consideration Myself Physical Visual
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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Car Cause Evaporation Toy
Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and nonverbal expression.
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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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I would never be a television presenter. It’s not something I could ever do.
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Actor Television
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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Achievement Comedy Play Respect Role Serious
Mr. Bean’: Childish, anarchic behaviour will always be funny.
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Behaviour Funny
In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don’t really need to explain very much at all.
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Commercial eed Explanation Television
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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Character Comedy Play Sense Thinking
You’re about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
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Contest Humour Man Sarcastic
Birthday meant to be another year to be Fabulous.
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Birthday Fabulous
I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the ’50s and ’60s.
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Car Enjoyment History Hobby Race
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
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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Camera Man Want
Excellence at everything you can do can be achieved on if it is a habit.
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Achievement Business Entrepreneur Excellence Habit
Look, if I’d wanted a lecture on the rights of man, I’d have gone to bed with Martin Luther.
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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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Absolute Play Thinking

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