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 ATKINSONFunny 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 think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience.
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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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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.
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I would return to the Blackadder character if the opportunity came up. I have no qualms about that at all.
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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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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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I’m not a naturally funny man. I find that I can only be funny, if I become someone else.
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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.
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I’m more critical of the films I make than anyone else.
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I would never be a television presenter. It’s not something I could ever do.
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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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The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil’s own satanic herd!
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It’s a bit disconcerting being treated like Madonna.
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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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I’m not looking for anything other than an interesting role to play.
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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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Nope, I don’t enjoy work generally. Not because I’m lazy; it’s just all so stressful and worrying.
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The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance has helped to determine your path through life.
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Mr. Bean is essentially a child trapped in the body of a man. All cultures identify with children in a similar way, so he has this bizarre global outreach.
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I have always worried about things more than I should.
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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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Mr. Bean’: Childish, anarchic behaviour will always be funny.
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What is wrong with inciting intense dislike of a religion if the activities or teachings of that religion are so outrageous, irrational or abusive of human rights that they deserve to be intensely disliked?
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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 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.
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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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