Rowan Atkinson Quotes

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• Nope, I don't enjoy work generally. Not because I'm lazy; it's just all so stressful and worrying.
• You're about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
• To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom.
• 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…
• I mean I can do it when I'm very relaxed, and with good friends, then I think I can be amusing.
• 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…
• I like to juggle with one ball at a time. Then I put the ball down and do nothing for extended periods of time.
• The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance... has helped to determine your path through life.
• But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness and arrogance and…
• 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…
• 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…
• I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.
• I'm not a collector. I don't like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate.
• It's not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.
• Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and nonverbal expression.
• When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing on chat shows…
• Get that right, then- if you get the quality right, then the marketability or whatever; your ability to sell videos or your ability to earn…
• 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…
• Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and, of course, you can't see…
• In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don't really need to explain very much at all - you just say he's a spy and…

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