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I’m as poor as a church mouse, that’s just had an enormous tax bill on the very day his wife ran off with another mouse, taking all the cheese.

Rowan Atkinson

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
The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil’s own satanic herd!
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Cow Devil Life Path
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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Discover Film Finding Funny Gas Neck Sarcastic
I have to say that I’ve always believed perfectionism is more of a disease than a quality. I do try to go with the flow but I can’t let go.
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Marketing is what gets you noticed, and that side of it something – this side of it, if you like, doing interviews – is the side of it that I least enjoy, and yet is 50% of the project.
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It’s not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.
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Easy Feature
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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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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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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Birthday meant to be another year to be Fabulous.
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Birthday Fabulous
I’m certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.
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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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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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Excellence is not an act but a habit.
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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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But I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism.
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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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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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Mr. Bean’: Childish, anarchic behaviour will always be funny.
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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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I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.
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I’m not looking for anything other than an interesting role to play.
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We must be allowed to insult each other.
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I mean I can do it when I’m very relaxed, and with good friends, then I think I can be amusing.
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I tend to play rather odd men. People that are slightly odd or eccentric, or have a more particular attitude to life.
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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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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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