Mr. Bean had a very good chance of being successful and long-running.
ROWAN ATKINSONTry to be creatively lead rather than market lead.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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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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Excellence at everything you can do can be achieved on if it is a habit.
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I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.
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In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don’t really need to explain very much at all.
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We must be allowed to insult each other.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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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 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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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’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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Birthday meant to be another year to be Fabulous.
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