I’m not looking for anything other than an interesting role to play.
ROWAN ATKINSONI’m not a collector. I don’t like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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Enjoy your own company instead of expecting someone else make you happy.
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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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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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Lord, thy one-liners are as good as thy tricks. Thou art indeed an all-round family entertainer.
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I would never be a television presenter. It’s not something I could ever do.
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Mr. Bean is essentially a child trapped in the body of a man. All cultures identify with children in a similar way, so he has this bizarre global outreach.
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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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I consider myself more of a visual comedian than a physical one.
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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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You’re about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
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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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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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feel as though the camera is almost a kind of voyeur in Mr. Bean’s life, and you just watch this bizarre man going about his life in the way that he wants to.
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In the modern media age, we are rarely surprised by what we see.
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Excellence is not an act but a habit.
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