If you’re a serious actor, it’s when you know you’re going to die tomorrow that you really start to feel it.
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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I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.
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Mr. Bean’: Childish, anarchic behaviour will always be funny.
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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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If you want to be strong learn to live alone.
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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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The arts community still has a long lasting cynicism of the importance, or the artistic value, of comedy. Comedy is just farting about for money.
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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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You’re about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
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What is wrong with inciting intense dislike of a religion if the activities or teachings of that religion are so outrageous, irrational or abusive of human rights that they deserve to be intensely disliked?
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Lord, thy one-liners are as good as thy tricks. Thou art indeed an all-round family entertainer.
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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’m more critical of the films I make than anyone else.
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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 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 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 have a problem with Porsches. They’re wonderful cars, but I know I could never live with one.
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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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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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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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Excellence at everything you can do can be achieved on if it is a habit.
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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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The job is interesting, and the task is difficult, but the man is just a decent man doing a very ordinary job.
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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 generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
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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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I would never be a television presenter. It’s not something I could ever do.
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