Rowan Atkinson Quotes

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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

  Rowan Atkinson

  Beautiful, Successful, Mind

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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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  Men, Funny Men, Ifs

  "Rowan Atkinson JOHNNY ENGLISH REBORN Interview". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 20, 2011.

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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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  Path, Determine, Happenstance

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• But I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism.

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  Perfectionism, Feels

  "Fears of a clown" by Amy Raphael, www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2003.

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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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  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Views

  "Rowan Atkinson: we must be allowed to insult each other". www.telegraph.co.uk. October 18, 2012.

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• 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 freedom to criticize ideas, any ideas - even if they are sincerely held beliefs - is one of the fundamental freedoms of 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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  Religious, Race, Law

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.

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  Different, Want, Way

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• You're about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.

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  Funny, Sarcastic, Men

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• I have always worried about things more than I should.

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  Worried, Should

  "Fears of a clown". Interview with Amy Raphael, www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2003.

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• The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil's own satanic herd!

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  Devil, Satanic, Cows

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• Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.

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  Funny, Sarcastic, Might

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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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  Thinking, People, Laughing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Art is something that nobody laughs at and nobody makes any money out of is the attitude, which I would dispute.

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  Art, Attitude, Laughing

  Source: news.tvguide.co.uk

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• Nope, I don't enjoy work generally. Not because I'm lazy; it's just all so stressful and worrying.

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  Worry, Lazy, Stressful

  "Fears of a clown". Interview with Amy Raphael, www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2003.

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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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  Views, Important, Oppression

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• What is wrong with inciting intense dislike of a religion if the activities or teachings of that religion are so outrageous, irrational or abusive of human rights that they deserve to be intensely disliked?

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  Atheist, Fear, Teaching

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• Marketing is what gets you noticed.

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  Marketing

  "An Interview with Rowan Atkinson". Interview with Ken P., ca.ign.com. July 18, 2003.

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• Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and nonverbal expression.

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  Home, Expression, Using Words

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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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  Thinking, Funny Things, Needs

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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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  Funny, Money, Wife

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• 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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  Good Friend, Light, Serious

  "Rowan Atkinson JOHNNY ENGLISH REBORN Interview". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 20, 2011.

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• It's not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.

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  Easy, Turns, Features

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• I've no desire to hang around with a bunch of upper-class delinquents, do twenty minutes' work and then spend the rest of the day loafing about in Paris drinking gallons of champagne and having dozens of moist, pink, highly experienced French peasant girls galloping up and down my - hang on.

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  Girl, Drinking, Upper Class

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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.

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  Balls, Down And, Periods

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• In the modern media age we are rarely surprised by what we see. Whether it's on television or film or in the theatre, everything is so advertised, so trailed, that most entertainment is merely what you thought it was going to be like.

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  Media, Age, Theatre

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