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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.

Rowan Atkinson

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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Children Decline Face Physical Sad
You’re about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
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Contest Humour Man Sarcastic
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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Attempt Criticism Ideas Indeed Law Religious Ridiculous
I can be reasonably funny and light-hearted when I’m in the company of good friends, but I’m not a jokesmith. I tend to be quite serious.
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Company Friendship Funny Heart Joke Quite Reason Serious
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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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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Audience Confidence Finding Funny Minimalism Pretty Simplicity Taste
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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Achievement Comedy Play Respect Role Serious
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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Alternative Criticism Insult Problem Sarcastic
I would never be a television presenter. It’s not something I could ever do.
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Actor Television
I’m not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts.
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Clever Creative Focus Instinct Particular
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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If you want to be strong learn to live alone.
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My personal problem is that I take the business of film-making so seriously that I find it very difficult to relax.
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It’s not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.
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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 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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