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I would never be a television presenter. It’s not something I could ever do.

Rowan Atkinson

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.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Amuse Comics Funny Happen Natural Need Thinking
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
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.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Awesome Buy Clothes Date Love Myself Self Love Single
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 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
Excellence at everything you can do can be achieved on if it is a habit.
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Achievement Business Entrepreneur Excellence Habit
I’m not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts.
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Clever Creative Focus Instinct Particular
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 think in many ways Johnny English is a more believable character.
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Actor Believe Character Film
Marketing is what gets you noticed.
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Market Notice One Liner
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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Oppression Represent Ridiculous Right Society
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
Art is something that nobody laughs at and nobody makes any money out of is the attitude, which I would dispute.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Art Attitude Dispute Laugh Money
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’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
If you want to be strong learn to live alone.
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Alone Healing Inspirational Learning Live One Liner Strong
Marketing is what gets you noticed, and that side of it something – this side of it, if you like, doing interviews – is the side of it that I least enjoy, and yet is 50% of the project.
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Enjoyment Interview Market Notice Project
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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Ball Extend Period Time
I’m not a collector. I don’t like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Car Cause Evaporation Toy
Look, if I’d wanted a lecture on the rights of man, I’d have gone to bed with Martin Luther.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Funny Lecture Man Right Sarcastic Want
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.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Ability Earn Market Money Natural Quality Right Sell
I enjoy it when it’s over! I enjoy whatever success we have. If an audience finds it funny, then it’s been worth it.
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Audience Enjoyment Funny Success Worth
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
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.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Ability Earn Market Money Natural Quality Right Sell
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
It’s not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.
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Easy Feature
In the modern media age, we are rarely surprised by what we see.
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Age Media Modernization Rare Surprise

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