You’re about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
ROWAN ATKINSONPeople 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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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 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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Try to be creatively lead rather than market lead.
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We must be allowed to insult each other.
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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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I am not really single, I am dating my self , I take my self out to eat, I buy myself clothes, I love me, I’m awesome.
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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 have always worried about things more than I should.
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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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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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For telling a good and incisive religious joke, you should be praised. For telling a bad one, you should be ridiculed and reviled. The idea that you could be prosecuted for the telling of either is quite fantastic.
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Sometimes I don’t feel like going to work but then I remember I was born cute not rich.
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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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Mr. Bean had a very good chance of being successful and long-running.
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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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