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I mean I can do it when I’m very relaxed, and with good friends, then I think I can be amusing.

Rowan Atkinson

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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You’re about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
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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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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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If you get the quality right, then the marketability or whatever; your ability to sell videos or your ability to earn money or whatever, will follow naturally.
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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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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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But I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism.
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I have to say that I’ve always believed perfectionism is more of a disease than a quality. I do try to go with the flow but I can’t let go.
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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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My personal problem is that I take the business of film-making so seriously that I find it very difficult to relax.
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Mr. Bean is essentially a child trapped in the body of a man. All cultures identify with children in a similar way, so he has this bizarre global outreach.
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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 in character as Mr. Bean.
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But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
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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 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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I mean I can do it when I’m very relaxed, and with good friends, then I think I can be amusing.

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