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I’m certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.

Rowan Atkinson

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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Achievement Comedy Play Respect Role Serious
I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.
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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’m not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts.
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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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Camera Man Want
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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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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Body Children Culture Essential Man
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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I would return to the Blackadder character if the opportunity came up. I have no qualms about that at all.
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But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
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Introspective Quiet Tend
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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Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.
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Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot before I can be even remotely amusing.
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Excellence is not an act but a habit.
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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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I’m not looking for anything other than an interesting role to play.
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I’m certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.

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