The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance has helped to determine your path through life.
ROWAN ATKINSONFunny 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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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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But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
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Enjoy your own company instead of expecting someone else make you happy.
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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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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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Sometimes I don’t feel like going to work but then I remember I was born cute not rich.
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I have always regarded Mr. Bean as a timeless, ageless character, and I would rather he be remembered as a character mostly in his 30s and 40s.
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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 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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But I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism.
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Don’t get too much emotionally attached to anyone.
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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 have a problem with Porsches. They’re wonderful cars, but I know I could never live with one.
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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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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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