Mr. Bean had a very good chance of being successful and long-running.
ROWAN ATKINSONThe job is interesting, and the task is difficult, but the man is just a decent man doing a very ordinary job.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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I suddenly think the job of acting is a difficult one. It’s not as flip, irrelevant, and shallow a calling as I thought it was in the Eighties.
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Birthday meant to be another year to be Fabulous.
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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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I would return to the Blackadder character if the opportunity came up. I have no qualms about that at all.
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I’m more critical of the films I make than anyone else.
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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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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.
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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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But I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism.
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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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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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Enjoy your own company instead of expecting someone else make you happy.
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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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I’m certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.
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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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