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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.

Rowan Atkinson

I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Audience Confidence Finding Funny Minimalism Pretty Simplicity Taste
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.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Acting Call Difficult Irrelevant Job Shallow
I like to juggle with one ball at a time. Then I put the ball down and do nothing for extended periods of time.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Ball Extend Period Time
I’m not a collector. I don’t like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Car Cause Evaporation Toy
The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil’s own satanic herd!
ROWAN ATKINSON

Cow Devil Life Path
I find his films about as funny as getting an arrow through the neck and discovering there’s a gas bill tied to it.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Discover Film Finding Funny Gas Neck Sarcastic
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.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Oppression Represent Ridiculous Right Society
I’m certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Ambition Aware Minimalism Sophistication Suppress
I have always worried about things more than I should.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Human Nature Worry
You’re about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Contest Humour Man Sarcastic
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.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Fantastic Joke Praise Quite Religious Ridiculous
I don’t think you should be too absolutist about what you play and what you don’t play.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Absolute Play Thinking
I have a problem with Porsches. They’re wonderful cars, but I know I could never live with one.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Car Problem Wonderful
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.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Camera Man Want
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.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Enjoyment Interview Market Notice Project
Mr. Bean had a very good chance of being successful and long-running.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Chance Success

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