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But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.

Rowan Atkinson

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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I don’t think you should be too absolutist about what you play and what you don’t play.
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Absolute Play Thinking
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 enjoy racing historic motorcars from the ’50s and ’60s.
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Car Enjoyment History Hobby Race
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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We must be allowed to insult each other.
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Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.
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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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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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It’s not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.
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I would never be a television presenter. It’s not something I could ever do.
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Actor Television
Excellence at everything you can do can be achieved on if it is a habit.
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Achievement Business Entrepreneur Excellence Habit
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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I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.
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Mr. Bean had a very good chance of being successful and long-running.
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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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