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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.

Rowan Atkinson

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
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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Bill Cheese Enormous Mouse Poor Tax Wife
Excellence is not an act but a habit.
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Act Entrepreneur Excellence Habit One Liner
I would never wish to say that I’ve finally waved goodbye to any character, it’s just that the emphasis tends to shift.
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Character Emphasis Goodbye Shift Wave
I think in many ways Johnny English is a more believable character.
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Actor Believe Character Film
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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Acting Call Difficult Irrelevant Job Shallow
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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Art Comedy Community Importance Money Value
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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Actor Die Feeling Future Serious Start
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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Business Difficult Film Personal Problem Relax Serious
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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Challenge Commercial Creative Necessary Personal Value
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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Ball Extend Period Time
I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.
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Different Express Inclination Myself Performance Want
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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Audience Enjoyment Funny Success Worth
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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Ability Earn Market Money Natural Quality Right Sell
I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the ’50s and ’60s.
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Car Enjoyment History Hobby Race
I consider myself more of a visual comedian than a physical one.
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Comedy Consideration Myself Physical Visual
I don’t think you should be too absolutist about what you play and what you don’t play.
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Absolute Play Thinking
I have a problem with Porsches. They’re wonderful cars, but I know I could never live with one.
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Car Problem Wonderful
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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Abuse Activity Atheist Deserve Human Incite Intense Outrageous Religion Teaching
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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Funny Lecture Man Right Sarcastic Want
Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.
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Barber Funny Humour Sarcastic Service
The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil’s own satanic herd!
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Cow Devil Life Path
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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Children Decline Face Physical Sad
But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
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Introspective Quiet Tend
In the modern media age, we are rarely surprised by what we see.
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Age Media Modernization Rare Surprise
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
It’s not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.
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Easy Feature

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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