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I have always worried about things more than I should.

Rowan Atkinson

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
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 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
Mr. Bean had a very good chance of being successful and long-running.
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Chance Success
I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.
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Different Express Inclination Myself Performance Want
Lord, thy one-liners are as good as thy tricks. Thou art indeed an all-round family entertainer.
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Entertainment Family Goodness Indeed Lord
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
Marketing is what gets you noticed, and that side of it something – this side of it, if you like, doing interviews – is the side of it that I least enjoy, and yet is 50% of the project.
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Enjoyment Interview Market Notice Project
I mean I can do it when I’m very relaxed, and with good friends, then I think I can be amusing.
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Amuse Friendship Relax Thinking
We must be allowed to insult each other.
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Allow Funny Insult Sarcastic
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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Dull Laugh People Performance Person Quiet Stage
I consider myself more of a visual comedian than a physical one.
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Comedy Consideration Myself Physical Visual
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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Age Character Regard Remember Time
Don’t get too much emotionally attached to anyone.
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Attachment Break Up Broken Heart Emotional Relationship
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
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
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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Discover Film Finding Funny Gas Neck Sarcastic
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
Birthday meant to be another year to be Fabulous.
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Birthday Fabulous
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
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
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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Fantastic Joke Praise Quite Religious Ridiculous
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
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 enjoy racing historic motorcars from the ’50s and ’60s.
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Car Enjoyment History Hobby Race
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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Attempt Criticism Ideas Indeed Law Religious Ridiculous
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 always worried about things more than I should.

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