I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.
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But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Mr. Bean’: Childish, anarchic behaviour will always be funny.
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For telling a good and incisive religious joke, you should be praised. For telling a bad one, you should be ridiculed and reviled. The idea that you could be prosecuted for the telling of either is quite fantastic.
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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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I’m certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.
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Don’t get too much emotionally attached to anyone.
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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 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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Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.
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