I’m not a naturally funny man. I find that I can only be funny, if I become someone else.
ROWAN ATKINSONI would return to the Blackadder character if the opportunity came up. I have no qualms about that at all.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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A law which attempts to say you can criticize and ridicule ideas as long as they are not religious ideas is a very peculiar law indeed.
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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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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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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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Sometimes I don’t feel like going to work but then I remember I was born cute not rich.
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Art is something that nobody laughs at and nobody makes any money out of is the attitude, which I would dispute.
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The one thing I would never wish it to be thought is that you play serious roles in order to achieve some sort of respectability which you can’t if you’re playing comedic roles.
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We put a lot more value, or at least I personally put a lot more value, on the creative values and creative challenges of something than the commercial necessities.
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Nope, I don’t enjoy work generally. Not because I’m lazy; it’s just all so stressful and worrying.
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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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Mr. Bean’: Childish, anarchic behaviour will always be funny.
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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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But I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism.
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I enjoy it when it’s over! I enjoy whatever success we have. If an audience finds it funny, then it’s been worth it.
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If you want to be strong learn to live alone.
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