The job is interesting, and the task is difficult, but the man is just a decent man doing a very ordinary job.
ROWAN ATKINSONDon’t get too much emotionally attached to anyone.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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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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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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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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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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The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil’s own satanic herd!
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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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Excellence is not an act but a habit.
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For 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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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 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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The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance has helped to determine your path through life.
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I think in many ways Johnny English is a more believable character.
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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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I’m certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.
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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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