I’m not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts.
ROWAN ATKINSONI 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.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.
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Lord, thy one-liners are as good as thy tricks. Thou art indeed an all-round family entertainer.
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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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In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don’t really need to explain very much at all.
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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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Excellence at everything you can do can be achieved on if it is a habit.
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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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I don’t think you should be too absolutist about what you play and what you don’t play.
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You’re about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
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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.
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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.
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In the modern media age, we are rarely surprised by what we see.
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Nope, I don’t enjoy work generally. Not because I’m lazy; it’s just all so stressful and worrying.
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I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the ’50s and ’60s.
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If you’re a serious actor, it’s when you know you’re going to die tomorrow that you really start to feel it.
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