I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the ’50s and ’60s.
ROWAN ATKINSONFor 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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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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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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Marketing is what gets you noticed.
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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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Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.
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Try to be creatively lead rather than market lead.
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The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil’s own satanic herd!
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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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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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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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You’re about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
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Excellence at everything you can do can be achieved on if it is a habit.
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When I was doing Bean more than I’ve done him in the last few years, I did strange things – like appearing on chat shows in character as Mr. Bean.
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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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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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