I would never wish to say that I’ve finally waved goodbye to any character, it’s just that the emphasis tends to shift.
ROWAN ATKINSONI find his films about as funny as getting an arrow through the neck and discovering there’s a gas bill tied to it.
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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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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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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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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 and 40s.
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But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
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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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It’s not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.
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I’m not looking for anything other than an interesting role to play.
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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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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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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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I enjoy it when it’s over! I enjoy whatever success we have. If an audience finds it funny, then it’s been worth it.
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It’s a bit disconcerting being treated like Madonna.
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Mr. Bean’: Childish, anarchic behaviour will always be funny.
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The arts community still has a long lasting cynicism of the importance, or the artistic value, of comedy. Comedy is just farting about for money.
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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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feel as though the camera is almost a kind of voyeur in Mr. Bean’s life, and you just watch this bizarre man going about his life in the way that he wants to.
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I find his films about as funny as getting an arrow through the neck and discovering there’s a gas bill tied to it.
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Marketing is what gets you noticed, and that side of it something – this side of it, if you like, doing interviews – is the side of it that I least enjoy, and yet is 50% of the project.
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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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I am not really single, I am dating my self , I take my self out to eat, I buy myself clothes, I love me, I’m awesome.
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Try to be creatively lead rather than market lead.
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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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But I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism.
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In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don’t really need to explain very much at all.
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Enjoy your own company instead of expecting someone else make you happy.
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