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Mr. Bean had a very good chance of being successful and long-running.

Rowan Atkinson

Nope, I don’t enjoy work generally. Not because I’m lazy; it’s just all so stressful and worrying.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Enjoyment Lazy Stress Work Worry
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.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Dull Laugh People Performance Person Quiet Stage
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.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Appearance Character Chat Done Show Strange
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.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Fantastic Joke Praise Quite Religious Ridiculous
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.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Amuse Comics Funny Happen Natural Need Thinking
The job is interesting, and the task is difficult, but the man is just a decent man doing a very ordinary job.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Decent Difficult Interesting Job Man Ordinary Task
Mr. Bean’: Childish, anarchic behaviour will always be funny.
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Behaviour Funny
Marketing is what gets you noticed.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Market Notice One Liner
I have a problem with Porsches. They’re wonderful cars, but I know I could never live with one.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Car Problem Wonderful
Enjoy your own company instead of expecting someone else make you happy.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Company Deep Enjoyment Expectation Happiness Inspirational
But I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Actor Confidence Feeling Inspirational Perfection Suppose
I’m not looking for anything other than an interesting role to play.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Interesting Play Role
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.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Ability Earn Market Money Natural Quality Right Sell
The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely stating an alternative point of view to the orthodoxy, can be interpreted as insult.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Alternative Criticism Insult Problem Sarcastic
I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Audience Confidence Finding Funny Minimalism Pretty Simplicity Taste
In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don’t really need to explain very much at all.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Commercial eed Explanation Television

Mr. Bean had a very good chance of being successful and long-running.

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