"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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Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Rowan Atkinson

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Laughing Quotes

“If people knew the story of their lives, how many would then elect to live them?”
“Saeed quickly found employment at a Banana Republic, where he would sell to urban sophisticates the black turtleneck of the season, in a shop whose name was synonymous with colonial exploitation and the rapacious ruin of the third world.”
“If you've got craft, you got game. If you got game, you can write your way in and out of anything. Writing is the best gig in the whole business, as far as I'm concerned. It's the only job where you don't have to wait for someone to tell you what to do. You just sit down and make s**t up.”
“Genre stuff is the most exciting stuff for an actor to play. I get to try new things, do things I would have never got the chance to do.”
“I didn't have a big fat Greek wedding, but I have a lot of fat Greek friends.”
“No, It's hard to uproot yourself and really become yourself in another soil, but it's also an opportunity, another kind of growth.”

Source : FaceBook post by Ha Jin from Oct 20, 2012
“When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your heart be employed, as much as possible, in divine thoughts.”

Source : David BRAINERD (1818). “The Life of the Rev. David Brainerd ... A New Edition, Carefully Revised and Corrected. [With Brainerd's Journal.]”, p.264
“Nature is the best and really the only real vocabulary that an artist can legitimately work with.”

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