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.
ROWAN ATKINSONI 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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It’s not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.
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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 a problem with Porsches. They’re wonderful cars, but I know I could never live with one.
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In the modern media age, we are rarely surprised by what we see.
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If you want to be strong learn to live alone.
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Excellence at everything you can do can be achieved on if it is a habit.
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I can be reasonably funny and light-hearted when I’m in the company of good friends, but I’m not a jokesmith. I tend to be quite serious.
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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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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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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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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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I would never be a television presenter. It’s not something I could ever do.
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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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I have always worried about things more than I should.
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