I mean I can do it when I’m very relaxed, and with good friends, then I think I can be amusing.
ROWAN ATKINSONYou’re about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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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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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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The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil’s own satanic herd!
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Excellence at everything you can do can be achieved on if it is a habit.
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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 can be reasonably funny and light-hearted when I’m in the company of good friends, but I’m not a jokesmith. I tend to be quite serious.
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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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In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don’t really need to explain very much at all.
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I have to say that I’ve always believed perfectionism is more of a disease than a quality. I do try to go with the flow but I can’t let go.
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You’re about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
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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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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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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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Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.
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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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