The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance has helped to determine your path through life.
ROWAN ATKINSONIt’s a bit disconcerting being treated like Madonna.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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Mr. Bean’: Childish, anarchic behaviour will always be funny.
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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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I have always regarded Mr. Bean as a timeless, ageless character, and I would rather he be remembered as a character mostly in his 30s and 40s.
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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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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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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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I have a problem with Porsches. They’re wonderful cars, but I know I could never live with one.
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The arts community still has a long lasting cynicism of the importance, or the artistic value, of comedy. Comedy is just farting about for money.
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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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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 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 consider myself more of a visual comedian than a physical one.
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Don’t get too much emotionally attached to anyone.
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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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