Mr. Bean’: Childish, anarchic behaviour will always be funny.
ROWAN ATKINSONThe 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 would never be a television presenter. It’s not something I could ever do.
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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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I’m more critical of the films I make than anyone else.
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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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Try to be creatively lead rather than market lead.
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Excellence is not an act but a habit.
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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’m not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts.
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I don’t think you should be too absolutist about what you play and what you don’t play.
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Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a little sad. You’ve got to be careful.
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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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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’m not a collector. I don’t like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate.
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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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I would never wish to say that I’ve finally waved goodbye to any character, it’s just that the emphasis tends to shift.
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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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I’m not looking for anything other than an interesting role to play.
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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 certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.
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We put a lot more value, or at least I personally put a lot more value, on the creative values and creative challenges of something than the commercial necessities.
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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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I consider myself more of a visual comedian than a physical one.
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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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You’re about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
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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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But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
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