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.
ROWAN ATKINSONThe 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.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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Excellence is not an act but a habit.
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The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance has helped to determine your path through life.
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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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But I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism.
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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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Excellence at everything you can do can be achieved on if it is a habit.
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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’m not a naturally funny man. I find that I can only be funny, if I become someone else.
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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 want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.
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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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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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In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don’t really need to explain very much at all.
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I’m more critical of the films I make than anyone else.
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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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