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I think in many ways Johnny English is a more believable character.

Rowan Atkinson

I would never be a television presenter. It’s not something I could ever do.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Actor Television
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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Alternative Criticism Insult Problem Sarcastic
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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Awesome Buy Clothes Date Love Myself Self Love Single
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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Achievement Comedy Play Respect Role Serious
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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Don’t get too much emotionally attached to anyone.
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Attachment Break Up Broken Heart Emotional Relationship
I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the ’50s and ’60s.
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Car Enjoyment History Hobby Race
I would return to the Blackadder character if the opportunity came up. I have no qualms about that at all.
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Acting Character Opportunity
I’m not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts.
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Clever Creative Focus Instinct Particular
When I was doing Bean more than I’ve done him in the last few years, I did strange things – like appearing on chat shows in character as Mr. Bean.
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Appearance Character Chat Done Show Strange
Enjoy your own company instead of expecting someone else make you happy.
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Company Deep Enjoyment Expectation Happiness Inspirational
Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.
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Barber Funny Humour Sarcastic Service
I consider myself more of a visual comedian than a physical one.
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Comedy Consideration Myself Physical Visual
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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You’re about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
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Contest Humour Man Sarcastic
The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil’s own satanic herd!
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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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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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Company Friendship Funny Heart Joke Quite Reason Serious
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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To be successful you don’t need beautiful face and heroic body, what you need is skillful mind and ability to perform.
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I don’t think you should be too absolutist about what you play and what you don’t play.
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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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Actor Attitude Particular People Play
The job is interesting, and the task is difficult, but the man is just a decent man doing a very ordinary job.
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If you’re a serious actor, it’s when you know you’re going to die tomorrow that you really start to feel it.
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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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I have a problem with Porsches. They’re wonderful cars, but I know I could never live with one.
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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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