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Rowan Atkinson Inspirational Quotes (65)

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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 be even remotely amusing.
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I'm not a naturally funny man. I find that I can only be funny, if I become someone else.
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It's not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.
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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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The job is interesting, and the task is difficult, but the man [Maigret] is just a decent man doing a very ordinary job.
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To Be Successful You Don't Need Beautiful Face And Heroic Body, What You Need is Skillful Mind And Ability To Perform
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I'm not a collector. I don't like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate.
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I think in many ways Johnny English is a more believable character.
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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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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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The Scarlet Pimpernel is the most over-rated human being since Judas Iscariot won the A.D.31 'Best Disciple' competition.
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Of course, some would say if you have a performing inclination, then you should become a lawyer. That's a platform we use, or a priest. You know, anywhere you lecture and pontificate to people.
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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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The good thing about those original credit card commercials was that they were very filmic, they were like little movies, so it wasn't a big step to think well maybe we could make a big movie using this character, which we eventually did.
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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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Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.
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I think you're bound to get a sense of any character that you play. It's not something you often do in comedy.
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