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Nope, I don’t enjoy work generally. Not because I’m lazy; it’s just all so stressful and worrying.

Rowan Atkinson

I have always worried about things more than I should.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Human Nature Worry
The arts community still has a long lasting cynicism of the importance, or the artistic value, of comedy. Comedy is just farting about for money.
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Art Comedy Community Importance Money Value
We must be allowed to insult each other.
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Allow Funny Insult Sarcastic
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
Lord, thy one-liners are as good as thy tricks. Thou art indeed an all-round family entertainer.
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Entertainment Family Goodness Indeed Lord
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
Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.
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Barber Funny Humour Sarcastic Service
But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
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Introspective Quiet Tend
I consider myself more of a visual comedian than a physical one.
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Comedy Consideration Myself Physical Visual
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
It’s a bit disconcerting being treated like Madonna.
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Cause Treatment
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’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
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
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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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

Nope, I don’t enjoy work generally. Not because I’m lazy; it’s just all so stressful and worrying.

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