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.
ROWAN ATKINSONIn the modern media age, we are rarely surprised by what we see.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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Excellence at everything you can do can be achieved on if it is a habit.
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Mr. Bean had a very good chance of being successful and long-running.
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You’re about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
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I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience.
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I’m as poor as a church mouse, that’s just had an enormous tax bill on the very day his wife ran off with another mouse, taking all the cheese.
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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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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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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 want to be strong learn to live alone.
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I’m more critical of the films I make than anyone else.
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Excellence is not an act but a habit.
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Art is something that nobody laughs at and nobody makes any money out of is the attitude, which I would dispute.
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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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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’m not a naturally funny man. I find that I can only be funny, if I become someone else.
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But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
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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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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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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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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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