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I like to juggle with one ball at a time. Then I put the ball down and do nothing for extended periods of time.

Rowan Atkinson

I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the ’50s and ’60s.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Car Enjoyment History Hobby Race
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 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
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
In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don’t really need to explain very much at all.
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Commercial eed Explanation Television
You’re about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
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Contest Humour Man Sarcastic
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
I’m not looking for anything other than an interesting role to play.
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Interesting Play Role
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 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
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
The right to ridicule is far more important to society than any right not to be ridiculed because one in my view represents openness – and the other represents oppression.
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Oppression Represent Ridiculous Right Society
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 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 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

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