The one thing I would never wish it to be thought is that you play serious roles in order to achieve some sort of respectability which you can’t if you’re playing comedic roles.
ROWAN ATKINSONI don’t think you should be too absolutist about what you play and what you don’t play.
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Don’t get too much emotionally attached to anyone.
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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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Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.
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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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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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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 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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Mr. Bean had a very good chance of being successful and long-running.
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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 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 tend to play rather odd men. People that are slightly odd or eccentric, or have a more particular attitude to life.
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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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Excellence is not an act but a habit.
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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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Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and nonverbal expression.
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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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It’s not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.
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I’m more critical of the films I make than anyone else.
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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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I have always worried about things more than I should.
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I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the ’50s and ’60s.
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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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Sometimes I don’t feel like going to work but then I remember I was born cute not rich.
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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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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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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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