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I have always regarded Mr. Bean as a timeless, ageless character, and I would rather he be remembered as a character mostly in his 30s and 40s.

Rowan Atkinson

A law which attempts to say you can criticize and ridicule ideas as long as they are not religious ideas is a very peculiar law indeed.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Attempt Criticism Ideas Indeed Law Religious Ridiculous
I would never be a television presenter. It’s not something I could ever do.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Actor Television
The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil’s own satanic herd!
ROWAN ATKINSON

Cow Devil Life Path
Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and nonverbal expression.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Expression Home Silence
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.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Challenge Commercial Creative Necessary Personal Value
The right to ridicule is far more important to society than any right not to be ridiculed because one in my view represents openness – and the other represents oppression.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Oppression Represent Ridiculous Right Society
I’m not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Clever Creative Focus Instinct Particular
I’m certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Ambition Aware Minimalism Sophistication Suppress
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.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Children Decline Face Physical Sad
I’m not a naturally funny man. I find that I can only be funny, if I become someone else.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Be Yourself Deep Finding Funny Man Natural
The arts community still has a long lasting cynicism of the importance, or the artistic value, of comedy. Comedy is just farting about for money.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Art Comedy Community Importance Money Value
If you’re a serious actor, it’s when you know you’re going to die tomorrow that you really start to feel it.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Actor Die Feeling Future Serious Start
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.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Camera Man Want
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.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Bill Cheese Enormous Mouse Poor Tax Wife
Birthday meant to be another year to be Fabulous.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Birthday Fabulous
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.
ROWAN ATKINSON

Achievement Comedy Play Respect Role Serious

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