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I would never be a television presenter. It’s not something I could ever do.

Rowan Atkinson

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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Art Attitude Dispute Laugh Money
People think because I can make them laugh on the stage, I’ll be able to make them laugh in person. That isn’t the case at all. I am essentially a rather quiet, dull person who just happens to be a performer.
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Dull Laugh People Performance Person Quiet Stage
The job is interesting, and the task is difficult, but the man is just a decent man doing a very ordinary job.
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Decent Difficult Interesting Job Man Ordinary Task
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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Discover Film Finding Funny Gas Neck Sarcastic
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
In the modern media age, we are rarely surprised by what we see.
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I would never be a television presenter. It’s not something I could ever do.
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Actor Television
You’re about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
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Contest Humour Man Sarcastic
We must be allowed to insult each other.
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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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Ability Earn Market Money Natural Quality Right Sell
I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.
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Different Express Inclination Myself Performance Want
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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Art Comedy Community Importance Money Value
We put a lot more value, or at least I personally put a lot more value, on the creative values and creative challenges of something than the commercial necessities.
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Challenge Commercial Creative Necessary Personal Value
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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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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Try to be creatively lead rather than market lead.
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