Rowan Atkinson Quotes

I’m not a collector. I don’t like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate.
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Car Cause Evaporation Toy
I consider myself more of a visual comedian than a physical one.
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Comedy Consideration Myself Physical Visual
I like to juggle with one ball at a time. Then I put the ball down and do nothing for extended periods of time.
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Ball Extend Period Time
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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Body Children Culture Essential Man
I have always worried about things more than I should.
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Human Nature Worry
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
In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don’t really need to explain very much at all.
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Commercial eed Explanation Television
Funny 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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Amuse Comics Funny Happen Natural Need Thinking
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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Age Character Regard Remember Time
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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Business Difficult Film Personal Problem Relax 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
When I was doing Bean more than I’ve done him in the last few years, I did strange things – like appearing on chat shows in character as Mr. Bean.
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Appearance Character Chat Done Show Strange
I’m more critical of the films I make than anyone else.
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Criticism Film
But I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism.
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Actor Confidence Feeling Inspirational Perfection Suppose
Try to be creatively lead rather than market lead.
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Business Creative Market Try
I think in many ways Johnny English is a more believable character.
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Actor Believe Character Film
Birthday meant to be another year to be Fabulous.
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Birthday Fabulous
I would return to the Blackadder character if the opportunity came up. I have no qualms about that at all.
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Acting Character Opportunity
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.
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Camera Man Want
You’re about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
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Contest Humour Man Sarcastic
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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Art Attitude Dispute Laugh Money
Don’t get too much emotionally attached to anyone.
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Attachment Break Up Broken Heart Emotional Relationship
Mr. Bean’: Childish, anarchic behaviour will always be funny.
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Behaviour Funny

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