Excellence is not an act but a habit.
ROWAN ATKINSONEnjoy your own company instead of expecting someone else make you happy.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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I’m not looking for anything other than an interesting role to play.
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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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I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.
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Excellence at everything you can do can be achieved on if it is a habit.
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I find his films about as funny as getting an arrow through the neck and discovering there’s a gas bill tied to it.
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It’s a bit disconcerting being treated like Madonna.
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I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience.
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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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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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I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the ’50s and ’60s.
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I think in many ways Johnny English is a more believable character.
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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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Try to be creatively lead rather than market lead.
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I would return to the Blackadder character if the opportunity came up. I have no qualms about that at all.
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The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance has helped to determine your path through life.
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Birthday meant to be another year to be Fabulous.
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I’m more critical of the films I make than anyone else.
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Marketing is what gets you noticed.
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The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely stating an alternative point of view to the orthodoxy, can be interpreted as insult.
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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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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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I mean I can do it when I’m very relaxed, and with good friends, then I think I can be amusing.
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If you want to be strong learn to live alone.
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Lord, thy one-liners are as good as thy tricks. Thou art indeed an all-round family entertainer.
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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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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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