I would never wish to say that I’ve finally waved goodbye to any character, it’s just that the emphasis tends to shift.
ROWAN ATKINSONApart 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.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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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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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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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 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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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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But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
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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 would return to the Blackadder character if the opportunity came up. I have no qualms about that at all.
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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 consider myself more of a visual comedian than a physical one.
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You’re about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
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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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Enjoy your own company instead of expecting someone else make you happy.
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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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Lord, thy one-liners are as good as thy tricks. Thou art indeed an all-round family entertainer.
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