I’m not looking for anything other than an interesting role to play.
ROWAN ATKINSONfeel 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.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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To be successful you don’t need beautiful face and heroic body, what you need is skillful mind and ability to perform.
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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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It’s not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.
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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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But I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism.
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Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.
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It’s a bit disconcerting being treated like Madonna.
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If you want to be strong learn to live alone.
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I have always worried about things more than I should.
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I’m not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts.
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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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Look, if I’d wanted a lecture on the rights of man, I’d have gone to bed with Martin Luther.
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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 would never wish to say that I’ve finally waved goodbye to any character, it’s just that the emphasis tends to shift.
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The one thing I would never wish it to be thought is that you play serious roles in order to achieve some sort of respectability which you can’t if you’re playing comedic roles.
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