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.
ROWAN ATKINSONNope, I don’t enjoy work generally. Not because I’m lazy; it’s just all so stressful and worrying.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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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.
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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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I have always worried about things more than I should.
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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 a naturally funny man. I find that I can only be funny, if I become someone else.
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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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I’m as poor as a church mouse, that’s just had an enormous tax bill on the very day his wife ran off with another mouse, taking all the cheese.
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I am not really single, I am dating my self , I take my self out to eat, I buy myself clothes, I love me, I’m awesome.
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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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I’m not looking for anything other than an interesting role to play.
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Excellence is not an act but a habit.
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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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If you’re a serious actor, it’s when you know you’re going to die tomorrow that you really start to feel it.
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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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Lord, thy one-liners are as good as thy tricks. Thou art indeed an all-round family entertainer.
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