I don’t think you should be too absolutist about what you play and what you don’t play.
ROWAN ATKINSONThe job is interesting, and the task is difficult, but the man is just a decent man doing a very ordinary job.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.
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I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience.
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We must be allowed to insult each other.
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The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance has helped to determine your path through life.
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In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don’t really need to explain very much at all.
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You’re about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
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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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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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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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Enjoy your own company instead of expecting someone else make you happy.
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But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
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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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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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Lord, thy one-liners are as good as thy tricks. Thou art indeed an all-round family entertainer.
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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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