I think you’re bound to get a sense of any character that you play. It’s not something you often do in comedy.
ROWAN ATKINSONI would never be a television presenter. It’s not something I could ever do.
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I’m not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts.
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I consider myself more of a visual comedian than a physical one.
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Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.
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The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance has helped to determine your path through life.
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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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I mean I can do it when I’m very relaxed, and with good friends, then I think I can be amusing.
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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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I tend to play rather odd men. People that are slightly odd or eccentric, or have a more particular attitude to life.
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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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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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I find his films about as funny as getting an arrow through the neck and discovering there’s a gas bill tied to it.
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But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
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I have to say that I’ve always believed perfectionism is more of a disease than a quality. I do try to go with the flow but I can’t let go.
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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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You’re about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
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